23 JUNE IN THREE ACTS

‘I’M NO GRAVEDIGGER’ ‘I’M NO MIRACLE WORKER’  

WITH NO ANSWERS TO SPEAK OF PRESIDENT BOLSONARO TAKES EVASIVE ACTION   

ILL-EQUIPPED THEREFORE HE QUIPS  

IF ONLY HE WOULD QUIT IF ONLY BRAZIL COULD EVADE THE VIRUS SO READILY    

IN READING  DON’T STEP ON THE GRASS 

POLICE WILL PITCH A TENT THERE AND GO OVER IT WITH A FINE TOOTH COMB    

COMBING TEETH’S NO MORE SENSELESS THAN THE ACT ITSELF 

THE FACT OF THEIR MURDER  

THREE MEN IN A PARK ON MIDSUMMER’S EVE   

IS THERE REASON OF SORTS IN A MIND THAT DISTORTS?

COMPELLED BY CONDITIONS IN THE CAMP

PROPELLED BY THEIR ASPIRATIONS  

AFRICANS BUYING SURFBOARDS PADDLING OUT TO SEE IF THEY CAN MAKE IT   

INTO THE WORLD’S BUSIEST SHIPPING LANES 

SELF-PROPELLED AGAINST PROPELLERS 

ARE THEY TIRED+EMOTIONAL ON REACHING LAND?  

EITHER WAY THEY’LL BE ALL CHURNED UP

WISHING THERE WAS MORE SENSE TO BE HAD FROM WHAT WE SEE AND HEAR   

YOURS TRULY  

THE NEWS POET