MEANING NOTHING AND EVERYTHING
If a government acts like some ill
people are worthless
hospital staff get rough they’re embarrassed
when such ask their help. Guessing
what’s acceptable as real, we jostle
down safer corridors towards newer exits into sun.
Nobody’s wicked. Blaming governments is old hat,
boring.
The sun shines on the seas,
the moon’s orbit gluts tides already blown fat by westerlies
dark as balloons with rain.
The world is perceived
entirely differently so air and light
are unutterably changed. Ill people
sleep against locked church doors, eat out
of supermarket recycling bins, drink Superstrength instead
of medicine. But like profitable 2nd generation anti-psychotics
it’ll kill them.