Tom Russell
Contempt
The jaw of an ordered cosmos dropped
when they proclaimed they would not be vaccinated.
Pissing away fundamental decency.
Horseshit and hubris will seal the promise
of an alternative reality where they will feel so powerful
for a while. They'll sneer and jeer and tell you
that they now own you and that your liberal science
failed the world. Your stupid hoax won't work
on them.
And then they will die.
Bio
Tom Russell became interested in poetry in 1981. Before that, he thought all the poets were dead. He took a 30-year coffee break from writing in 1984.