HISTORY'S HAPPY PAWNS
The horror is too great to embrace,
to accept, to comprehend. JFK,
King, Bobby, Malcolm X, the list
so long, so goddamn long,
and the red dots begging for
connection, a red line to lead us
into the abyss.
Masochists may proceed. The rest
of us live in a dream, not
that the horrors didn't happen,
but that oh well, it's all too
extraordinary to comprehend,
far beyond our powers to fix,
when a mad dog goes wild
you lock the gate and hide.
And so we live our small lives
in denial, history's happy pawns.
--Charles Deemer
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