Brian Beatty: "Fenced Out"

The early morning graffiti

of fog doesn’t lift here

in London, CA.   

Geography is a fear —

a vast pornography of voter

abstraction 

& discontent. 

Why not riot? We're expert

at following arrows.

We are what remain of all

that we can’t see for the forest’s 

proliferation of trees/posts.

This goat the world's

been parenting as a metaphor

has turned out to be

a dreadful substitute.

Or maybe we're learning 

(again) that we’re poor hosts.