Abecedarian For A Broken Country

by Sarah Curry

all her calls go to voicemail

because she can't be bothered with any

crisis whatsoever. she chooses to be oblivious to climate change.

does she look away in disdain when the

entirety of california is up in

flames?

global warming is the least of her concerns while

hate crimes trample her city turfs.

income inequality might sustain the class gap, but no

justification is enough to explain why derek chauvin

kneeled on george floyd’s neck long enough to kill him.

last drops of clean water are served to

mississippi, mirroring the crisis in flint, michigan.

no man, woman, or law is safe as

ovaries are outraged at the overturned roe vs wade.

people protest political division and police brutality while the government

quietly eats their buttered popcorn.

rescue is not coming. she is blindly unforgiving, as there is no relief.

student debt is suffocating the charts at one point seven

trillion dollars, yet a degree still doesn’t guarantee you won’t end up

unemployed.

violated America, she is not the least bit

worried. her voicemail echoes “leave your crisis at the tone,

xoxo.”

you’d think she would have solved these problems by now but nothing is done, just

zilch.