How Much Longer

  How Much Longer

How much longer

Must I have to endure

Living in an atmosphere

Of wrongdoing, where

Two wrongs make a right

Apparently, to you,

                   the citizenry

Of my country?

                        I refer

            to the candidacy

Of Kamala Harris for

              the office of 

              the presidency

Even though she is not

Eligible for it, any more

Than Barack Obama was

For neither of them being

A ‘natural born’ citizen

Of this country.

I want to see

A return to the rule

                    of law

In this country.

And just as soon

As possible.
While we still
        have
        time.

—

P.S. Interestingly, in this context - the context of the inspiration for me to write this observation, and at this particular time:

     I have been sharing my studio apartment premises for a while now with a spider, of the Daddy Long Legs variety, who, for whatever reason(s), chose to set up shop just under my kitchen sink taps.  It was a little annoying; but it was, basically, alright with me.  Live and let live.  It wasn’t hurting me, and I wasn’t hurting it.  We were each just doing our thing, living in close proximity with each other was all.  Although it got disturbed whenever I turned on my taps, and crawled back out of the way under my window sill.  But those were the terms of the ‘agreement’ - our mutual living arrangement.  (Although I never figured out what was in it for the spider.  Its meager web never caught any flies, or anything.  Not that there are many of those around here even at the best of times.)

     But today I noticed that it had packed up its web and left.

     I hope that it is a sign.