Cracked

A one-line poem in response to the Republican party’s role in the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection

antoinette nevitt
Chalkboard

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Narcissus at the spring — Jan Roos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

History was not
made in a day.

It took four years
of pretending

your crazy leader
couldn’t crack
America’s reflection

if you looked
the other way.

© Antoinette Nevitt, all rights reserved

Written in response to Harper Thorpe’s timely prompt History . Thanks to Kathy Jacobs, everybody at Chalkboard and special thanks to Nancy Pelosi.

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