(Obstacles To Health Care Reform #2)
by Scot Siegel
raise your hand if Health Insurance Premiums
Rise by Double-Digits
makes you resent North Dakota
Unemployment Rate Lowest In The Nation
and raise both hands if Ocean Temperatures
Rise Across The Globe
For The Fifth Straight Year
feels oddly familiar
like Galveston Floods Again
or Polar Bears Left Stranded
or Thousands Flee
California Wildfires
and stand up
if Youngest Of Nuremburg
Prosecutors
Dies In His Home
makes you long for a time
before Twenty Die
Outside Mosque
In Roadside Blast
Detonated By
A Woman
and take a seat
when [we interrupt to bring you…]
Solar Prominences Active
But Sunspots Conspicuously Absent
According To Scientists
=0 A
At Lowell Observatory
Recession Nearly Over––
Scot Siegel's recent books include Some Weather (Plain View Press 2008) and the chapbook, Untitled Country (Pudding House Publications 2009). He serves on the board for the Friends of William Stafford.
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