| Jonathan Berger's Poetry: Poem of the Day |
| TOIL AND TROUBLE Sweeping the rubble like pissing into the inferno or dusting a pig sty or killing a locust is wasteful practice. It helps the condition not at all. Sweeping the rubble barely pokes at the toe of the creature who did this who allowed this travesty of life to occur. Sweeping the rubble is ass-backwards retroactive hoping to stop a bubbling pot. Sweeping the rubble is barn-closing, post-bovine liberation the ramparts stormed, sweeping the rubble is a sentry's warning. And it's stupid, and it's dumb so I ask you, stop this thing, that you have done for these past three hours quit this sweeping of the rubble. |