Problems Are Problems

The riches are sleeping so we march

Photo by Jimmy Conover on Unsplash

Let’s be militia men with machine guns today,
standing watch at the iron gates —
how we’ve never seen inside the walls.

Our Learjet is the living room,
our streaming services,
white wine in a water glass.

The riches are sleeping so we march
among the quiet stockpiles
of our two-story single families

with sod and solar panels
on a dead-end street
where the numbers only rise up

and to the right, where the sun
only touches three sides of the house.
Let’s not cower today — let’s not choose

the easy path of being alone,
sitting back to back with tilted heads.
Let’s choose to be together.

©️ Trapper Markelz 2021

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