Keith Moul

 

 

A Story of Pseudo-Factual Distractions

 

She asked

if I could tell her

a happy story,

just the way small

children would.

 

Dogged by realities

of the moment,

I blurted “No.”

 

She asked then if

I might know

another kind of story,

maybe not so happy,

but one not to make

her be afraid.

 

Dogged by realities

of history of our world,

I answered slowly “No.”

 

Our silences mixed

like two wide rivers

that obey their law,

quite poignantly

I thought.

 

So I made do

with downward force

so I wouldn't have to define

gravity itself; attraction

as if it were affection,

suitable for a little girl;

and flowing rivers motion.

 

Buoyed by pseudo-factual

distractions, I proposed

a story of dishonor,

a sanitized history

of Donald Trump

and Mitch McConnell.

 

 

Keith Moul © 2020