putrefaction

of late

I’ve had this thought

that this country

has gone backwards

4 or 5 decades

and that all the

social advancement

the good feeling of

person toward

person

has been washed 

away

and replaced by the same

old

bigotries.

…

now

something so sad

has hold of us

that

the breath

leaves

and we can’t even

cry.

Charles Bukowski 1992