American anxiety

Is an underbelly of knots

Tied in with the times

Politicking with the clock

As the senate’s influence is  sold

And bought

While a paranoid right

Hold their guns tight

And yet

Again and again

Another man’s shot

American anxiety ties not so neatly in

This knot

Of words

Where apprehension finds its home

This tired poem

Running out like that last man’s  breath

Just another day

Just another death

Because death brings no trouble

When his clock runs out time

A pulse out of rhythm

This poem of rhyme

Still senate doing nothing

Might as well resign

This

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