Stone Soup Croutons, 11-13-24: Done Deal

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

Thanks for reading. 

 

Timothy Gager's feature was a much needed tonic for the past seven days.

For all our downer poetry, the mood was very update on Wednesday. I regret that this week's poem is not. 

 

Stone Soup will continue to do the one thing we can do while we're still allowed.

Thanks for reading.

 

Cheer Up

We've been sold

another bridge 

made of eggs.

 

Women need

to continue

walking.

Repeat to your

phone's AI

This is fine.

The war on

democracy 

already ended.

We've become

our own 

puppet regime.

Excrement 

on the walls 

is now design.

Create new

new photo ID 

made of Lego.

Our optimists

are already 

gravedancing.

Now keep off 

roads, stay on

winter beaches.

Safer to walk

in nighttime 

at this moment.

Children might

be safe acting

like walking dead.

War cry music

turns up as 

last votes tally. 

Generations 

hear families'

hearts die first.

Their dirges 

a flurry of final

calls to arms.

Best in world 

now a place 

to avoid.

 

Special thanks to Patricia Carragon, Mary Jennings, Richard Spisak, Edward S. Gault, Jackie Oldham, Jon Wesick, Robert Fleming, Bil Lewis, Jan Rowe, Erik Nelson, Christiana Celli, Mary Ann Honaker, Mark States, Rich Boucher, Ethan Mackler, James Van Looy and special feature Timothy Gager.