Cops push out addicts
Living under bridges
Then talk them down
From jumping off them
Suicide rates are leaping
But it’s not all bad news
At least the stock market
Reached another high
Welcome to the new norm
Please distract in place
The CEO of Pfizer just sold
His shares for 5.6 million
On news of a fabulous jab
While outside my window
I saw a guy find salvation
Inside another kind of stab
Clean air, trees, and animals
Live more inside memories
Than anywhere else now
Once the polar ice caps melt
It’ll be another place to drill
But it’s not all doom and gloom
Elon’s gonna save the world
By sending man out to mars
Creativity tilled to vacant lots
Where kids used to play tag
Games like hopscotch or jacks
Red rover and capture the flag
Lone statues of imagination
Rotting in teenage wastelands
This is the zombie apocalypse
Without a single shot fired
Millions with no food or homes
Even more without any work
Yet everyone owns a phone
Why do you think the Nazis
Gave every family a radio?
But it’s not all doom and gloom
Sony came out with the PS5
Jails come with joysticks now
Poetry By: Cara Feral
Image By: Steve Cutts
The Tigress Awakens 
It’s not all doom and gloom
In Washington
yet another mutation
of the mammon contagion
and the Emergency Ward
has run out of room
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Classic comment!!!
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Inspired by your neo-classical
poetic lament. Cara.
“It’s is poetry’s business to be
dangerous.”
~ I can’t remember who,
but someone said that 😎
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Perhaps it was Sir Robert MacDylan that said that? Even if he didn’t he lived it. Have fun in Nepal and India!!! Also I hope you have a wonderful new Year!!
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Thank you, Cara 🌹 You too.
Things can only get better
At least . . . I hope that’s true 🙏
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