Tuesday, December 8, 2020

The Voice of Athena

I’ve gotten to be dependent on Heather Cox Richardson.
She reads the news, so I don’t have to.
She keeps me from panicking

about all the reappointments in the Pentagon,
for instance, or all the abusive lawsuits
to keep Biden out of office. Heather Cox Richardson

sets me straight on everything—
like, is there going to be a military coup?
I’m just on the verge of panicking

when her fearless, reasonable
voice is right here, showing how we’ve gone through this before:
way back in Reconstruction

times, “socialism” already meant bailing out
urban folks whom rural and suburban folks don’t like,
right-wingers always in a panic-fit

that the government will take away their mun.
If we don’t like you, it’s not fair for you to vote.
That’s why I'll listen to Heather Cox Richardson
until our Nazi President is finally gone.