RESPECT

Respect
I suspect
Is a foreign word
Goodness
Is undone
Because Pablum won
The courts 
Were not blind
How sublime
They didn’t know
Couldn’t show
Partisanship 
Self-worship
Or something worse
The devil’s curse

A useful idiot
Comes into power
Lack of cognizance 
Such a sorrow
Respect
I love the word
A bird cracking seed
Is that absurd
No not at all
Let us not cancel
Except for comrade
Napoleon Fauci
That would not be a pity
No respect for him
A deceitful man
But them again
I will pray for him, too

Stanski
April 30, 2021 ^