Plea to the Liberal Media

Some things are too well-understood—

like the Republicans destroying American democracy—
to mention on Facebook.

We can wring our hands, but it won’t do any good.
Our friends are the only ones who see our posts, you see,
and our friends all understand

all too well what’s happening in the world.
Our lives are at the whim of a plutocracy.
People we think of as our friends—

like the New York Times and the Washington Post—
are constantly tickling our death-of-democracy
vanity by publishing Trump’s face,

and we rise to the bait
by going into our righteous democracy-loving apoplexy,
touting facts of which our few remaining friends

are far too well-aware to need to be reminded,
as covid administers the coup de gras.
Some things are too well-understood
to mention on Facebook.