Ignorance Rules the Hour

A Poem

Photo by Quinten de Graaf on Unsplash

you hail from a kingdom
of riches long past —
so far from this needy generation
made up of your sons and daughters

you tell us all the time
that it’s all our fault
for not working more,
for sleeping too much,
for buying cheap wine,
for crying out at the injustice
of what it means to pay for
just the right…