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TESTIMONY OF HEROES?

Nice of you to stop by for a chat.

Heroes? I think not; although,

you would like us to believe it so.

Your ambition still rules my derision

for the complicit decisions

you made to keep in place

a criminal of such disgrace

he had to be impeached twice.

He is more than simply “not nice.”

And you stayed silent for more than four

years of actions deplored

by anyone with a care for humanity.

Sheer insanity was not his alone.

This is something you, too, own.

What if you had gone to the news

with all the facts you  knew ?

Would there have even been a coup?

The blame is not his alone.

It also falls on non-heroic you.

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THE REAL COUP D’ETAT

I missed the windows today.

The blinds are closed.

Caught inside myself.

Blinds drawn against the sight

of growing night

despite the dawn

of disclosed truths

in public hearings

which left me in tears.

The news is not new.

We all knew it 

if we had been watching

or listening

or caring.

Hiding in plain sight

is a criminal’s defense

to guilt

when repetition

gone unpunished

becomes mundane

or is so raw

that some pretend

the windows are not dirty,

not in need of washing clean.

Pretending night is all there is.

Pretending night is enough

to see by.

Who needs light?

Continuing in darkness

leaves us all blind.

Soon, there will be no need

to close the blinds.

We will all be left

in the dark.

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