Jeff Koterba / Cagle Cartoons |
In the House
there’s treachery afoot.
A leader sandwiched by volleys
of red sensation
and
what formerly was known
as consensus.
And the price to be paid:
parliamentary
demo-
li-tion.
I move that the Country
Avert economic infanticide
By installing cold showers
That spray the margins where
Passion plays like theatre
To astound the outer rings.
Michel Steven Krug is a Minneapolis poet, fiction writer, former print journalist from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and he litigates. His poems have appeared in Sierra Nevada Review, Jerry Jazz, Whistling Shade, St. Paul Almanac, Liquid Imagination, Blue Mountain Review, Portside, New Verse News, JMWW, Cagibi, Silver Blade, Crack the Spine, Dash, Mikrokosmos, North Dakota Quarterly, Eclectica, Writers Resist, Sheepshead, Mizmor Anthology, Poets Reading the News, Ginosko, Door Is A Jar, Raven's Perch, Main Street Rag and Brooklyn Review. His collection Jazz at the International Festival of Despair is scheduled for publication by Broadstone Books, in the spring, 2024.