It’s Coming

Jeffrey L. Taylor

October 20, 2024

The fuse is lit.
The timer going.
I don’t see when
or what or where
it’s going to explode.

I hear the tick,
the hiss of the fuse.

Is a constitutional monarchy coming?
The newly crowned king declaring
on his first day on the throne
an unconstitutional anarchy.

Or an embattled constitutional,
duly elected by Electoral College,
President of the Republic.

East versus West
Coastal Elite.

Jeffrey L. Taylor is a retired Software Engineer.  Around 1990, poems started holding his sleep hostage.  He has been published in The Perch, California  Quarterly, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Texas Poetry Assignment.