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By
Penn Kemp
Process Due
My only antidote to all the lies, half-truths
and leaps to judgment is radical honesty to
myself and you. Which keeps me somewhat
silent while social media raves and rages on.
The times are beyond phase. No phrase can
explicate, elucidate, explain or extricate us
from this mess of potage, this “shit-hole”
which imPotus so ineloquently describes.
O imPudent impOssible impRobable Imp-
Ulsive imPoster imPotus! Poseur: Will you
accept this thorn? The rose has departed.
Who can say what we deserve or why.
May courage, constancy, compassion and
clarity now see us through to the other side
of this impossible divide in ever widening
schism, polarized ruptures, rifts and splits.
How can we ever again be large enough to
encompass the whole? By choice of heart
and change of mindset, we might embrace
or at least endure, at most celebrate, all that
is thrown our way by chance or consequence.
The time has come. It is not just possible.
Despite invasive Trumpocracy, it is essential.
Mary McDonald photo
Penn Kemp
Penn Kemp is an activist Canadian poet, playwright and editor. Her latest works are Local Heroes, and the forthcoming Fox Haunts. Recent books include Barbaric Cultural Practice and two anthologies edited, Women and Multimedia and Performing Women. See www.pennkemp.weebly.com and riverrevery.ca.
Essential, indeed!