An American Sentence

This spinning top, who really dreamt up this show? Not those they claim, not those.
This spinning top, who really dreamt up this show? Not those they claim, not those.
Driving the back roads
to find some photos,
listening in on the radio,
a frightening study
on childhood suicide –
two despairs
leading distress
in our youth:
the climate crisis
and blocked access
to upward mobilty.
Have we been listening
to the cries?
It’s the dead of winter
and there is no snow,
yet the 1% can fly north
to find it.