Weather Report
Unlike white men wearing short pants in Midwestern winter,
wholly unworried that the car might not start –
no waiting for buses with these guys –
and confident that doors will swing open for them
into warm and welcoming spaces,
those awake to reality know that things have long gone wrong,
and will continue to go wrong.
Pretending otherwise is poor planning –
except, as always, for those bare-legged fortunate sons,
who are only cold when they want to be.
Trumpism: A Concise Definition
Kakistocracy of an almost complete sort – except for the Kleptocracy part, the main point, and, oh yes, the Killing of people both at home and abroad.
John G. Rodwan, Jr., is the author of the essay collections Fighters & Writers and Holidays & Other Disasters. His nonfiction and poems have appeared in journals and magazines such as Fifth Estate, Blood and Thunder, Midwestern Gothic, Maryland Literary Review, Palimpsest, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, Critical Moment, U.S. News & World Report, and The Brooklyn Rail. His writing has also appeared in several anthologies, including A Detroit Anthology and Detroit Neighborhood Guide (both published by Belt), Heaven Was Detroit (Wayne State University Press) and Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music (Michigan State University Press). He lives in Detroit.
