Indictments

You have been formally charged

With crimes against society

With crimes against humanity

And the sane just let out a long held-in sigh

With barely enough energy to applaud that

Justice may have escaped from its intolerable imprisonment

But I pay little attention now

Not that I presume anything but your guilt in the extreme

Not because I don’t wish for orange jumpsuits to become your wardrobe for life

But because in the end it’s just another distraction

Another media frenzy

To distract us from the horrors

Of killing off more innocent life forms

And poking holes in the life support system of a planet

Whose welcome we have worn out

Which in your deluded arrogance

Allows you to think you don’t need.