Yesterday, a group of eight Toledoans met with the staff of Ohio Senator Jon Husted. This visit was a follow-up from a visit last month where we presented several specific questions to be answered in this visit. There were no answers — not even whether we would or could get answers at some possibly defined time. Part of our quest was to ascertain if and what hard boundaries the senator might have on some of the key issues of the day, e.g., genocide, sex trafficking of minors, deporting our neighbors without due process. None identified. The sense of the group was that we are beating our heads bloody against a wall, of, at best, impotent staff, and a presumably intransigent senator nowhere to be found. We will persist, though eventually these monthly meetings will likely end up with a protest outside the senator’s Toledo office — where the staff can meet us at our office. This poem is my first shot across the bow.
Amoral Architecture
Infrastructure weak
Infrastructure weak
Infrastructure weak
The infrastructure bill
Is due
Unimaginably passed due
Our moral architecture
What remains
Of what is right
And left standing
In a no standing zone
Soully whispers
Herd in dark coroners
Of our body politic
Ever lusting echoes
In eternal silence
Of those who didn’t make it
And those who did make it
Fallowing, the sociopaths
Well trod on US
Even sow, we question the same
No answer
Know answer
Passing the buck
To the poor
The good news on the cheap
Wile corporate prophets
And corrupt politicos
Say buy buy to public goods
And dearly departing common cents
To be discontinued
Buy the way
The human raze
They lamely posture
What are we, maid of money?
Taken, the goaled
As neighbors made strangers
With coppers
The faceless and nameless
And what is the lessen?
There is no mettle, class
Soully taut propaganda
Chaos and corruption
Or better yet, just incompetence
Mean wile
The rich get richered
And the poor get dick
Always going back on
Word
Their final solution
Taking leave of US
And never budge it
As moral document
Without papers
Taking out verbal contracts
On us
Not worth the paper printed on
