ice age
if you have to go out in
winter ice is not your friend
whether the white ridges
or the translucent layer
disguised as asphalt
ice will take you down
maybe that’s what they
had in mind when it
became the acronym for
those who knock down doors
and scour streets scraping
people into oblivion
it chills me to think that
evil appreciates metaphor
freezes me in my tracks to
watch the hail of hatred
break hearts and windows
and leave us all shivering
the arctic temperature of
such hate cannot sustain life
humanity loses its footing
in such frigid heartlessness
we need to burn things down
so we don’t all freeze to death
Peace,
Milton