What We Know and What We Don't

We know the sailors drank too much rum before

Their ship went down. Some of us contemplate

Why perfectly good athletic shoes swing by their

Strings from power lines.

Each of us has a grain of sand at the bottom of the

Sea on which our name is engraved. Half a nation

Grieves the loss of decency and civility after losing

The election.

It is okay for the meek and disenfranchised to weep

For the next hundred years. I have no idea why I was

Assigned a certain consciousness and ego to live in

Such a dangerous and unforgiving place.

Horseshoes and dice can get you through life should

You work in a factory which manufactures them. At

The risk of sounding morose and pathetically negative,

All of us in the end are in for one hell of a surprise.

Even pompous Trump will be humbled and hushed into dust.

Chris Hanch 11-11-16