Normal was traffic stops turned fatal
Arrest warrants
served with halos
poverty
job seeking
surviving
at minimum rates
certainly not
living.
No time.
Normalcy was
four year degrees
with nothing to show
but hopes and dreams.
Perhaps
a pretty plaque.
Normalcy was
immigrant fear mongering
demonizing
categorizing as “enemies within.”
Normal was
presidential bail outs and
pardons for the rich and wealthy.
Normal-see — was
bombing overseas
proxy wars with government funding
autocracy
fascist police in city streets
militarized
humanity perceived as
enemies.
Rising cost of food
scarcity
unaffordable housing
inadequate government aid
moving the
retirement
age
working into the grave
numbered
statisticized
cradle to the grave
wage slaves.
A fate
worse than death.
Mass incarceration rates
as high as
3.15
repeating.
The “American dream,” scheme
that pie in the sky
a pipe dream
the smoke
blowin’ up your own ass.
Like tryna to stop a heart attack.
You wanna
“get back”
to
“normalcy?”
See: normal.