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David Huddle: Animal Videos as Last-Resort Religious Practice of the Ruined Nation
When politics became so deceitful
and hateful that even the idiot
president himself could see the country
collapsing into chaos, we citizens
.
found the old comforts–food, music, booze, drugs,
sex, and our churches–helped only a little
and though suicide rates shot up, most of us
lacked the nerve and/or the means to blow out
.
our own candles, so we turned to the videos–
an owl befriending an orphaned llama,
a baby elephant chasing geese, the Japanese man
taking his giant tortoise for a walk. We knew
.
they weren’t going to save us, but they were
all we could find that made us feel better.
Copyright 2018 David Huddle
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I love this poem, David. I too have found myself, oh dear, watching a cat video or two that came by way of fb and forgetting our world for a moment while I congratulated myself on being a Dog Person. It’s all true, and too true.
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Thanks, Michele!
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Amen. Puppy play. Kitty twisting the yarn.
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