The Essentials Of War
Apathy
Published in
May 16, 2024
My head and heart
and stomach scream —
lungs and ears implode.
Eyeballs squeezed
drip and blubber
frustration
over/load
Tears scar my face and
stream frustration and
I laugh hysterically
at the cynicism
of something
somewhere
sparking
outrage
and
fizzling
into gross
amnesia —
Abandoned —
these moribund
embers of
complacency
— and now
if you’ll
excuse
me …