“What Diet Now?”

What diet now?
With Trump in charge, and hostile media,
And CBC no longer one step back –
What diet now?
With tweets and Facebook, mob rule’s back once more.
What diet now?
With TV news now entertainment –
Privilege to tears, and pets and kids;
With legislators, courts, still standing back,
Unused to playing role of check and balance,
Holding to the fire
The feet
Of those
Who
Seek to gain.

“We’ve been deceived”
Is still ahead
For those
Whose vote
Was cast
To rectify.

It cannot to be –
It’s gone too far
For yesterday
To come back
Home again –

It cannot be –
For vested interests
Are come now so
Deeply trenched.

It cannot be –
And yet,
As water rises
In the hold
Of ship of state –

We’re now
All on
One ship –

It’s in our interests
To pull back
And watch –

“Who gains?” He asked –
And yet,
Not being givers,
They don’t see
The sleight-of-hand,
The forward work,
The take
Deferred.

They sucker in –
For givers are so far
Ahead,
That no one
Thinks
They were involved.

And yet –
And yet, indeed
They are.

And always will be
As the Fascist
Side of all of us
Lifts up
It’s ugly
Head.

So Lord,
I ask again –
What diet now?
What shall we eat
Now – having given up
On bread of life –

And finding
Bread itself
In short supply?

It’s okay Stu –
I’ve had My people
Out ahead
Preparing room
For those
(The bulk)
Who trail
Behind –

“Of which
You’re one –

“So hold the course –
It will not last
Long days
Until it’s
Through –

“Then it will stop –
And other forms
Of silliness
Will have their day;

“And moms
And kids
Will once again
Say ‘Peace at last –
We can return
To life we once enjoyed’–

“Not turning much
Until another Donald
(Or whomever)
Takes control,

“And seeks to make
Their world
In image
Of themselves”.

Thanks Lord for this.

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