A shortage of thinking caps like face masks,
Scientists, now quacks, for fumbling their facts
Leave empty souls, stumbling souls, vacant souls.
“No shortage of face masks” is the reply,
But of good sense, the world is found lacking.
The god of progress it seems can be hacked.
Glass ceilings cracked, a new class of victims,
And core values are still under attack.
Extract from all this, history: fit in;
Absquatulate; don’t be late; holy ranks
Spared not, squat to the pressure; divided;
Too many factions; fractions of what could
Be. Blessed martyrs and blessed saints and
Painted Churches putting on thinking caps.
Gary Edward Geraci