Apathyville

by Heath Brougher / August 5th, 2018

Each and every car slides
firmly randomly chaotically
into the stockpile ditch
of exhaust and glass
burnt rubber and jagged rain
upon human flesh.
The clusterfuck of twisted metal
has various
humans emerging from the chaos
like they
want help or something.

Us onlookers say: “We’re
Americans! We’re too patriotic to give
out charity. Those people need to pick themselves
up by their bootstraps and help themselves for a change!”

Heath Brougher is the Editor-in-Chief of Concrete Mist Press and co-poetry editor of Into the Void, winner of the 2017 and 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Magazine. He received Taj Mahal Review’s 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. In 2020, he was awarded the Wakefield Prize for Poetry. He has published 11 books and, after spending over four years editing the work of others, is ready to get back into the creative driver's seat. Read other articles by Heath.

This article was posted on Sunday, August 5th, 2018 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.