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Cartoon by Dave Whamond |
I celebrate you, reader, and me
despite the chaos, despite
the willful neglect
of the public purse,
despite the murder
without trial,
the rounding up
like cattle,
the callous disregard
for public health,
the spreading
of snake oil beliefs,
United States
in loathing, lurching
towards ruin
but somehow
surviving
still despite
jabbering
and chipping
away at
all due process
by this monster
who came in
elected
to the erstwhile
People’s
House
to make
room
for a
wrecking ball.
Indran Amirthanayagam writes a Substack. He has just published Isla itinerante ( Editorial Apogeo, Peru, 2025) and White Space Sonnets ( Sarasavi publishers, Sri Lanka, 2025). His other publications include El bosque de deleites fratricidas ( RIL Editores), Seer (Hanging Loose Press),The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil), Powèt Nan Pò A: Poet of the Port (Mad Hat), and Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (Broadstone Books). He is the translator of Kenia Cano’s Animal For The Eyes (Dialogos Books) and Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books). He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube, and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.