-by Blaizun Diamond

You know,
Despite the signs to the contrary:
The fear mongering bleak forecasts,
politics, pundits, doomsayers, and
climate deniers
Despite the cynics, the grifters,
the police, and the pedophiles
Despite the job market, the red lines,
the inflation, and the national debt
Despite private equity, inequality,
lobbying, and super-pacs
Despite the fascists, nationalists,
apparatchiks, and technocrats
Despite the price of homes, gas, food
water, electricity, and education
Despite the heat, the tides, the rain,
the fires, the forest, and the regulation

Despite the system, justice, health,
finance, and information
Despite the border, the prisons, the agents,
and their exculpation
Despite the graphs, the statistics, the
facts, and the figures
Despite my own best interests,

I think it’ll be okay