Radio

Each morning
I try to tune my radio
To hear the Houston National
Public Radio station to catch up on
Events while I shave but it is not
Easy as Christian radio broad
Casts drown it out on both
Sides of the dial bleeding
Into the bandwidth to
Drown out any voice
Of reason or any
Questioning of
Their reality
Of faith
Over
Facts
Just singing
Louder to drown
Out any questions.
But worst is the palaver
Of nincompoops on Neamiah’s
Actions in a fantasy past
While unmasking Satan
At COVID-19 parties
Reminds me of
Pickett’s
Charge
At Gettysburg
The courage of false
Convictions the absolute
Faith in absolutes stopped
Only by the blast of musket fire
Or in today’s world massed ballots.
This November take aim and vote
Against the same convictions
That sent slave catchers
Along with Lee’s army
Into the North trying
To capture blacks
For the Southern
Slave empire
And on this
Morning
Drown
Out
My
NPR.
Dagnabit!