ANTS

ANTS

enough of your antics
you
so-called politicians
most partisan of people

let the ants decide
the future of our planet

so many many
more of them
and one
creature
one vote
is that not what
democracy is supposed
to be
all about

the thing elites fear, historically
from Plato to
Nero and Caligula
and every
evil regime of brothers

no ants they got a matriarchy
and I’m sure their Queen
will be cool
with whatever saves
the day
averts the death of
our shared
blue
planet
(Janet)

before it goes like Venus
goes like Mars
atmosphere like
black lagoon
or none at all
full rocky horror

so no more fiddling
identity cards, restricted polls
delimitation, boundaries,
every
outright illegal attempt
to gerrymander the system

give the ants the vote
give it to
every creature

can’t
do worse than we
have done

no time for legal
linguistic quibbles

time we
turned partisan
into
“partisant”

(show this world, this Universe
what this species

is all about
narcissistically thought
to be
a Divine image)