Instincts

Disappointed
they said
about the election
as if a blue sweater
was ordered but a
red one delivered instead.
Surely such disappointment
is a mask against something
deeper
and darker
and more terrified.

Perhaps I am
projecting

Love and listening
they prescribe
as if listening
to threats and intolerance
will cure the traumas
of assault
and the
aggressions of
privilege run amok
as if being more loving
will erase anxiety
of untold perversions
of fairness and justice

Perhaps I am
cold-hearted

Cynical
I fear
does battle with
instincts
for speaking out
from inner power
and being a way-shower
if not a lightworker

Perhaps I am
struggling
and grieving
and stunned

It is interesting to
notice all this at once
while waiting for pizza
to tamp down
panic
and lift up
unrealistic hopes
that one day
things will be better

Is that the same
one day
when I'll be skinny?

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