Puma Perl

Around the Next Bend

We never know.

We’re a bunch of Scarlet O’Haras
repeating tomorrow is another day,
making ball gowns out of curtains
and curtains out of ball gowns.

Shut up, Scarlet, you racist bitch.

Tomorrow is another day off
for the unemployed, another day
off from eating for the hungry,
another day off from dreaming
of a better life as ICE is deployed
to tear families apart. You swore
you’d never go hungry again,
Scarlet O’Hara. Wish you were here,
losing your SNAPS and your mind.
Because that’s what starvation does.
But maybe there’s something around
the bend that will surprise you
and fuck up the kings and queens
not to mention the jokers.

Because, after all, we never know.