It’s hard to stop a train they saidIt’s hard to stop a trainYet we stopped a trainIt may plunge through American Democracy It may divide us like never before It may bring us, they say, bring us close to a total civil warBut that does not mean we cannot do itBy god, that means we must get to itWe must throw our bodies in front of itWe must unite, or die- to pull the tracks out from under itWe mu...

The privilege to not be withoutThe privilege to grow up isolated // in ignoranceThe privilege know not, even when the bomb goes offTo be shielded from the blastTo be shielded from the rioting, looting // shattered glassTo be shielded, even as a hail of bullets surrounds you and reveals the cracks in your foundation To only watch the streets of bloodTo only watch the terror on screen // warfare ...

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He stares down the barrel of a camera like a judge, implacable, hair and eyebrows wisped like a store wig. The left brow is higher, saying, Do you believe it? All of the crummy crap in the world, they decide to do this with your dollars? He has thinned. Toughened. There are fewer signs of White House meat, and the mouth that has puckered and parted with disdain at so many podiums is now long ...