April is National Poetry Month

And there's a challenge to write a poem a day for every day in April. I have been steadfastly participating in that challenge and finally wrote one today that I feel pretty good about.

April 16th

A syllogism:

Only war criminals
vote to fund other war
criminals.

Chuck Schumer’s vote
is to continue funding war
criminals.

A = B = C
AIPAC Bought Chuck
America Bombs Countries
Antipathy Begets Carnage
Ample Benign Chances
Avarice Before Care
Anxiety Bought Catastrophe
After Befalls Could haves
Abdication Becomes Coffins
Apathy Built Cemeteries
Apathy Became Credos
Apathy
Apathy
Apathy
Enough
Breathe
Breathe

Breath is a fanned fire
to stoke my wardrum heart

A deduction:
Just because I have never known
a country not at war
does not mean it cannot happen –
hope is a heavy thing
I will heave it
upon my chest
nonetheless.