Unready

plastic in our blood
and lead in our brains.

fascists scream
that the color of your skin
makes you better
(but only if you’re
white as the smog
that chokes the skyline).

children starve
and piles of food rot
in supermarket dumpsters.

politicians bomb babies
while wringing their hands
helplessly–

like it had to be done.

white nationalism
poisons the airwaves
and strangles
our hearts.

prove your gender
before you’re allowed to piss
or bleed out
on the floor.

tradwives
croon about obedience
and sourdough,

while they erase our rights

and call it freedom.

water jugs stocked in the closet,
a generator hums.

but–

i
don’t
think
a
go
bag

will

save

me.