The perfidy won’t stop
but you have to
at least for a day.
Exhaustion is our enemy
as much as lies and treason
and voter suppression.
Go see a movie
even if it is “Rogue One.”
Read a magazine that’s not political
like GQ or Teen Vogue.
Let yourself be distracted
by the flowers and wildlife,
the national parks
that we may not have
this time next year.

Sleep in
until you hear
the sound of the drones
hovering at your window.

–January 29th, 2017, Harlem, NY

from The Perfidy Report: Keeping an Eye on the Bastards. Lee Kottner’s poetry log from the Occupant’s first year in office. Regularly re-blogged – with permission – here at Headline.