Impasse
This is incredible prose, poem, fantastic. This says what many people think. You, Laura are a brilliant artist, and Paul, I have never read anything so amazingly true, yet still, a poetic political piece that is gutsy. https://poesypluspolemics.com/2018/01...
“Impasse” by Laura Bifano
shut it down
click the locks
light it up
burn it down
spend your
plug-nickel words
on old whores
wrinkled déclassé
dogmas who
smell of Chanel
number five
as if stink can
be hidden by
bottled sincerity
play at debate
with affected
indignance beneath
sacred domes
so that even the
hollowest voice
mimics gravitas
soundbites that
tongue-lick the
glib echo chamber
continue to
strike at the
nerves of a nation
asserting your
treacherous tenets
just know that
come judgment day
Dante’s reserved
his ninth ring
for your soul
shut it down
click the locks
light it up
burn it down
