What Happens in the End

A Work in Progress
43

Just an inch a year 

the ocean creeps

higher and higher and higher

we don’t mind

just as long as we get

higher and higher and higher

tariffs bite

prices rise

higher and higher and higher

we don’t mind

it makes us get

higher and higher 

it’s what we do

while rich guys rise

higher and higher and higher

we’ll get poorer

but we don’t care

getting higher and higher and higher

until we’re broke

we’ll just get 

higher and higher and higher

we’ll be homeless 

destitute

driven higher and higher and higher

we still have hope

King Trump’s rising

higher and higher and higher

he now owns space

we can see him

disappearing

going higher and higher and higher

and when he’s gone

we’ll be glad

to have him as a memory

fading out of sight as memories do

traveling far out in space

going higher and higher and higher

Dick Russell © Richard M Russell

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