{the photographs
of William Eggleston
While we were trying to make sense
of Donald Trump’s election victory
and what it meant
for the Middle East, Gaza
in particular
Lesbians, Gays, and all those others
a Tennessee police officer, sent
to check on the welfare of dogs
that had been reported as being
maltreated by their owners
who hadn’t even voted
shot every single one of them
with his sidearm, and then got back
into his cruiser, told the despatcher,
who often came to work
in house slippers, wool-lined tartan
that all was fine and dandy, switched
off his lights and the woo-woo noise,
drove back into town for breakfast
a coffee and a croissant, surprisingly
.
Steven Taylor
.