Second Coming No. 127 — May 26, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime
Alex Stolis
How Many People Would Live in America if Everyone Went Back to Where They Came From?
Would there be any suburbs fake grassed golf courses
and green pickle ball courts where would all the Real
Housewives live would the buffalo roam again would
the trains run on time would I be working a pig farm
in Albania or be a fisherman sailing the Greek Isles
would the sky be the same shade of blue with Costco
WalmartCVSStarbucks cornering every market would
grandma ever have learned English the coke ovens
ever been stoked and the bars filled would the shining
city on the hill be filled with light or would we be every
-day failures limited to everyday dreams would history
be kind wrap us in whitewashed linen our transgressions
becoming wisps of smoke changing the shape of heaven
would the last people turned away remember our names.
Alex Stolis is the author of the poetry collections Pop. 1280 (Cyberwit, 2021) and John Berryman Died Here (Cyberwit, 2020), as well as the chapbooks Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife (Louisiana Literature Press, 2024), RIP Winston Smith (Alien Buddha Press, 2024), and The Hum of Geometry; The Music of Spheres (Bottlecap Press, 2024). His poems have appeared in Ink in Thirds, San Pedro Review, Unleashed Lit, Anti-Heroin Chic, and other journals. Stolis lives in upstate New York with his partner, poet Catherine Arra.
Indolent Books and editor Michael Broder are back with another poem-a-day series as a creative response to the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House. The plan is to continue for all 1460 days of the 47th American presidency.
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This poem is amazing! Pam