Now Normal

It is

now normal, the way that sea level

has been shaken upside down,

a perfect way for have-nots

to drown.

now normal, the way the deranged order you

to pull yourself up

while they whip you

with those proverbial bootstraps.

now normal, to out an operative,

and, two tired years later, when you are finally

indicted, to be referred to as noble

by the news.

now normal,

to prosecute blow jobs,

but not treason, this

age of absent reason.

now normal,

to look back on Nixon

with something bordering on nostalgia –

but not quite.

now normal, to pretend poor people

are better off in a dome

than a home, though it is

sort of scary – for you, not them.

now normal, to rebuild a Catholic church

by adding a fountain and some

marble flooring, forgetting

the pedophiles you’re supposedly abhorring.

It is now normal.

They don’t even need

to make this stuff up any more –

unless they want to wage official war.