we'll get used to it: 1.28.17: 4:18 pm

we'll get used
to
it
we wont even
notice
we'll get used
to the dictator, caudillo, strongman
boss by edict, executive action, fiat,
we'll get used to it, we wont notice
'alternative facts', lack of checks
and balances, erasure of three branch
government, zip freedom of press, no open
door for immigrants, no roe vs. wade, no healthcare
insurance
we wont notice
the girl kids dying bloody
coathangers up their pussy, the kids
w/no parents, the parents w/sick
kids, spike in asthma, smog,
pollution, the sleepers on subway grates,
sleepers on the subway, the breakdown
in the subway, the round-ups and shootings,
nuclear holocaust, the hurricanes and
sharp winds unending, the dead polar bears,
the dead seas and hummingbirds, the planet
on fire--

it won't be us, it won't be our daughter
fever and bloody sepsis, it won't be me
sleeping on the subway grate, it won't be
my hijab caught & ripped at the gate, it wont be
my son, grandkids rounded up, it won't
be us
caught in nuclear bombing, drowned
city we'll get used to it we won't even notice

we're dead