The Mass Psychosis

Are we really going to spend our days pretending
as if there is not a rough beast lurking in the shadows,
biding his time until he can, once again,
slouch toward Washington to be reborn
in what will be the blaring blight of the Second Coming?

He threw his own supporters under the bus
in a last ditch effort to cheat his way to victory
yet his followers have not batted an eye
at the icy evil abundantly coursing through his veins.
They’re still too infatuated with the shiny hatred he sells.

Now is the time for the righteous and sane to rise.
Now is the time to cripple this monster
as he slumbers in wait.
Now is the time to reconstruct and reconnect.
We can use love to destroy the beast as it slumbers in an unmetaphysical womb.

Heath Brougher is the editor-in-chief of Concrete Mist Press. He was the recipient of the 2018 Poet of the Year Award and is a multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. He has authored twelve books, the most recent of which is Beware the Bourgeois Doomsday Fantasy (Sandy Press, 2024). Read other articles by Heath.