All Hail

by John Drudge / June 21st, 2020

Innovation
Without knowledge
Uneducated rhetoric
And people
With too much power
No real dialogue
To be had
On these sleek skid plains
Of the New Age
An excommunication of ideas
In a culture of lies
Hostile little religions
Of blame and persecution
Bleeding reason from the wrists
Where like minds
Only like
Like minds

John is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of six books of poetry: “March” (2019), “The Seasons of Us” (2019), New Days (2020), Fragments (2021), A Long Walk (2023) and Sojourns (2024) . His work has appeared widely in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children. Read other articles by John.

This article was posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2020 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.