Everyone that matters hides behind it.
The sick, the injured, the guilty,
the blameless, the young, the old, and the very old.
The loud and the louder yell from behind it.
The enlightened speak about it on TV but
what they speak is mostly self-serving bullshit.
The cult followers pray to it,
hoping for the change they spent their faith and fortunes on.
(MAGA promises RULE!)
The flag wavers and sign carriers,
all have a position that is absolute
and that's the only correct one to solve every issue...
just ask the blue-eyed Jesus
who has a permanent place behind it.
Behind the great white wall
you cannot have an abortion.
or any other health care not
provided to old White men.
But you do get to buy as many
guns and cannons as you need
Because behind the wall they need
to have live targets for mass shooters and
a population that ensures enough victims
and a statistical advantage at census time.
Can we out fuck THEM, like we outgun
THEM not found behind the wall?
Can we try?
Old fat guys hiding behind the wall
have a new purpose; baby daddies
(if only I had not gotten that vasectomy!)
Do you know who is not sheltering behind the great white wall?
Everyone not trying to hang onto a God damned cruel history.
© M Durfee
6/4/2022
The Great White Wall indeed--and the great white whales behind it, a wordplay I'm pretty sure you intended. I am struck as this poem tells by the blindness I think, most of all, the wishful thinking that all the realities we don't like can be conquered with a conspiracy theory or a gun. Our country is so lost I don't know if even blue-eyed Jesus can forgive us. Any lie, however cruel, however absurd, is better than seeing the naked truth.
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