Second Coming No. 44 — March 4, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House
Suzanne Osborne
Lullaby in a Time of Sorrow
Nov. 6, 2024 The sun came up anyway in a sky blue as 9/11. I took a walk anyway scuffing through leaves dead as all my hopes. There, there, now, now. Don’t mope. Tomorrow you’ll find a way to live in this alien world but for now feed the cat meowing round your feet. Musk, Hegseth, Kennedy. There, there, now, now. Just keep busy. Do the crossword, do Wordle and Spelling Bee—see? you’re a genius, now isn’t that nice? Greenland, Panama. There, there, now, now. They won’t hand over the canal. A fairy-tale ogre’s threats, just set them to music and sing yourself to sleep. Tomorrow the sun will rise as it always has, you’ll feed the cat as you always do, take a walk as you always do, watch the world change as it always does, the sun will set again as it always has and will till time runs down and all our little hopes and fears are done. There, there. Now, now
Suzanne Osborne‘s poems have appeared in journals including What Rough Beast, A River Sings, Jonah Magazine, Neologism Poetry Journal, and New Plains Review, among others. After an early career in theater, a stint in academia, and too many years as a legal secretary, she now lives in Forest Hills, NY, and writes poetry.
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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