a stitch in time
but we did not thread the needle
demanding truth, but giggled
at ‘alternative’ reality of self-serving
narrative and then chuckled at unkindness, whiny complaint, victimization and laughed aloud
at prejudice and hate, secretly, then openly cheered promises of revenge
“When is a monster not a monster?”
answer, evidently,
‘when he frees
the worst within us’