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| Demonstrators assemble outside the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in Louisville. (Luke Sharrett/Getty Images via The Washington Post, August 7, 2019) |
A breakdown, as in
corruption,
mind-feed, firearm soul.
We can’t get
the automatic
weapons
out of our hands.
The ability
to think
taken over
and with it
ourselves. What’s
it called
when democracy dies.
It’s called
my country.
Karen Neuberg is a Brooklyn-based poet. Her full length collection Pursuit is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. Her latest chapbook is the elephants are asking (Glass Lyre Press, 2018). Her poems have previously appeared in TheNewVerse.News. She is associate editor of the online poetry journal First Literary Review-East.