Daring the Sun to Disinfect Them

By Marc D’avegan Rubin

Down the slippery slope
little man by little man,

pinch by pinch, down
past the bottom of the bottomless

dark pit of the past.
Out of the shrieking stretched

mouths of man-children in black
and blue big man suits

blood-red state ties corrupted
through by shiny platinum pins,

the order is barked
from the false pulpit of bank fraud,

and tax fraud, and wire fraud,
fraudulent charity, fraudulent school,

fraudulent hair, tanning fraud,
mental health fraud, leadership fraud,

and every other form of fraud
that has ever been codified, written, or spoken,

for our official last words. With a firm kick,
we are shot

down the hole
to the infinite list;

the endless line still forming
to your endless pit.

Telling the doomed of pathetic hoards
How everything is better than it ever was

Thanks to the hole you dug for us
The pit you dug so deep.

Copyright © 2020 by Marc D’avegan Rubin Marc D’avegan Rubin is an accomplished poet, writer and editor; an installation, photographic and video artist; and a musician, composer and producer. He has won numerous awards in these fields. He also consults as a strategic design and business intelligence analyst, and as a media analyst and communications specialist for educational institutions and major corporations in New York City, Philadelphia, and New Jersey. He is currently working on a book of poetry entitled Sleep Walk through Fog, which features 50 of his poems in matched pairs with 50 paintings by his wife, artist Polly Faxon, who passed away in 2010. He is also currently in the pre-production stage of a 4-CD album of original music entitled “Four Suitcases Filled with Silence.” He holds a Master of Arts degree in Media Design and Media Studies from The New School for Social Research in New York City, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Cinema and Photography, with a minor in Creative Writing, from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He works out of Avant Guard Dog Studios in Trenton, New Jersey.