Understand
After watching
the Republican National Convention
I can’t understand
the accolades, the praise
the parade of toadies
the lies, the painting
of the other as dangerous
How do they excuse lies
How do they defend
twisted words, a rewrite of reality
Don’t they hear the sound of steel boots
Don’t they know history
Don’t they hear screaming rhetoric,
repetition of words, of framing
the other with symbols of fear
I hear the footfalls
What don’t they see
What don’t they hear
What don’t they understand
about where we are heading
Their vision ignores the signposts
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