Ten Day Forecast
Ten Day Forecast
Seeking reassurance in uneasy times—
she begins with the neutral—weather—
still an acceptable everyday opener,
and easily accessed on a smart phone.
Beyond her window wet snow falls
and the frisky squirrel has retreated.
Her computer's livestream keeps up
a line of chatter, noting that the reporter’s
actual colleague has just replaced his AI
stand-in—what? Once again, she isn’t sure
whether that one’s a joke. Improbable events
seem to be increasing— planes flipping over,
landing upside down on a non-runway,
footage of squads of white-clad, chained men,
bent over while their heads are shaved
before being shipped to a hell-hole prison
in El Salvador because now Trump is using
the 1798 Alien Enemies Act— not what
she has known as possible. But yesterday
Trump ordered the Department of Education
closed, and even Bernie, AOC and Maddow are
hard pressed to find rhetoric powerful enough
to meet the weather blowing from the Rabid Right.
—Sef, 3/21/2025
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