Free Verse and Other Ways of Cursing

                         

Free Verse and Other Ways of Cursing

Imagine that when the time comes

the seconds of those hours’ return

with the misfortune of gravestone

lethargy & that the stubborn hands

of that unworthy artifact

get stuck & again our eyes

return to the offensive insistence

of that presidential election.

Imagine the clock of death,

endless centuries, seasons,

geological ages, species, mutation

of these species, other galaxies,

worlds, abysses, impossible

universes, everything that could,

in short, have a name, wailing.

Imagine that for us it was always

that moment, forever the moment

of racist bigotry and misogyny …