Jaw Falls Through Floor

As I stand at the threshold of a society long-lost, a sickening scene unfolds before me. My so-called government, adorned with a big black boot, bids me yet another adieu with a sickened stomach as it engages in yet another genocide. The government is a paradoxical figure—a member of the Fascist Party with a broken stocking, her sagging belly a relic of a life lived in the shadow of fear, haunted by the specter of that tiny trump hand killing off anything unique or different should it not fit their insane thoughtless globally-broadcast menticidal narrative.

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.