The knives
and the
sharpening
stones
laid out
in plain
sight
waiting
***
We misunderstood
the length of the nightmare
and those who populated it
brown shirts
black shirts
white shirts
work shirts
Some with red noses
and big floppy shoes
some with weapons
we laughed
until the clown cars
turned back this way
Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist based in San Francisco, California. His most recent chapbook is called, War News (daily poems responding to the first three months of the genocidal war in Gaza), which appeared as a free online ebook published by Agitate! Journal. Forthcoming is a second volume in the War News series, War News II (12/9/23 - 6/3/24), to be published momentarily by fmsbw press in San Francisco.
