~ for the poet Lorca (1)~
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we spoiled citizens of
our
United States
have little facetime,
nor hands on familiarity
with fascism
even less with global geography,
and that tiresome subject,
h i s t o r y
but it’s a disease
just like malaria,
that has never
been fully eradicated
(ya didn’t know?)
and yet,
malaria has a treatment,
a cure, even a vaccine,
as does
fascism
something muy valuable,
free for the taking,
but not freely necessarily,
freely given,
a commodity
with its own supply and
demand curve
it is
commonly known,
but not necessarily
commonly available at any pharmacy,
generically labeled
f r e e d o m!
this disease
is however
attractively packaged,
it is not embodied in an
ugly mosquito,
so many eager to embrace
its potential praises,
ignoring the deep sea
trenches of pitfalls
that encase it
for it has the elegance of
simplicity
the simplicity of
eloquence
whose glittering
is an attracting
disguise of deadly poison,
the infamous elixir of
a “cure-all”
Nov 1, 2024
Nov 1, 2024 at 8:28 AM UTC
~ for the poet Lorca (1)~
<>
we spoiled citizens of
our
United States
have little facetime,
nor hands on familiarity
with fascism
even less with global geography,
and that tiresome subject,
h i s t o r y
but it’s a disease
just like malaria,
that has never
been fully eradicated
(ya didn’t know?)
and yet,
malaria has a treatment,
a cure, even a vaccine,
as does
fascism
something muy valuable,
free for the taking,
but not freely necessarily,
freely given,
a commodity
with its own supply and
demand curve
it is
commonly known,
but not necessarily
commonly available at any pharmacy,
generically labeled
f r e e d o m!
this disease
is however
attractively packaged,
it is not embodied in an
ugly mosquito,
so many eager to embrace
its potential praises,
ignoring the deep sea
trenches of pitfalls
that encase it
for it has the elegance of
simplicity
the simplicity of
eloquence
whose glittering
is an attracting
disguise of deadly poison,
the infamous elixir of
a “cure-all”
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