valorized habit

by Roberto Lavidez

an era of

xenophobic

violent

action

so chaotic

and futile

that it felt

like stasis

encompassed

the usual

mish-mash

of ideological

tendencies

rejecting 

the past 

which

continued

to roil in

the depths

of the present

yet looking

to a 

perfected

future

in the

confident 

hope of 

a miracle

a hope 

which proved 

forlorn

the question

remains

urgent but

unanswerable

expression

as calm and

imperturbable

as that

of the sphinx

we are left

to guess

what is more

dangerous

amidst all the

abundance

we are

inundated

with myriads

of starving

occupying

a place

between

the thieving

impostors

and the

great poets

lonely and

anxious

for a taste

of the rise

and fall of

liberty and

democracy

of the rage

of an extreme

and strangely

fascinating

case of

living which

ensured that

conflict was

perpetual

and endemic

those sitting

at the top

advocating

a uniform

racial

blindness

all they

could do

was fume

no matter

where they

might be

found

they can

disappear

as quickly as

they appeared

their habit

of violence

could be

redeemed

and valorized

making

a mock

of forces

massed

against them

often

degenerating

into 

acrimonious

squabbles

between

cliques

playing up

tales of

new

world order

emanations

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