What will you say when this is over and you called people like me radicals.

Marxists. Commies.

When you said and did things to “trigger libs” 

Instead of to create a more perfect union. 

And you made like it was some freedom of speech bullshit. 

What will we say to each other when you pretended I was the enemy.

Antifa -- an idea that says we must fight against tyranny and injustice.

Making a movement into an us and them moment.

And people were murdered in the streets and in their beds

And you had some righteous law-and-order bullshit.

Where are the laws that make it okay to storm the state house

So you can open your bar

A bar in which my gay friend gets his head bashed in

And you justify it with a fake god

And you have some obscure Biblical bullshit

What will we talk about when you said Nazis 

Were good people and teachers were lazy good-for-nothings who

Didn’t want to go to work

And the teachers wept because they missed their kids

And their books, and their classrooms, and their boards

And you did some union-bashing bullshit

Now you want compassion

Now you want empathy

Now it is you who are compromised and vulnerable

And need for us to get through this together

But it’s hard to see through the bullshit.

October 6, 2020