David Cranmer

THE CONSPIRACY BUFF (IN THE AFTERMATH OF ROE V. WADE BEING OVERTURNED)

I think of all the conspiracies that you
readily accepted, pushed my way daily
as facts

but when I sent you links about the depraved,
brutal rape of a ten-year-old girl, you claimed,
“fake news!”

Until the rapist was jailed, and it was an
undeniable truth and you grew at once
silent

silent because it did not back your narrow
political and ugly Christofascist
prism.

You would not accept that many children have
dealt with such travesties on a regular
basis.

So, I am gladly extending the finger
to one lacking objective reality,
Fuck you!


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David confesses: "My poem isn't so much about abortion as it is people willing to believe anything, even in the face of a crime, to support their own beliefs, and how I've grown tired of individuals who have no critical thinking whatsoever."

DAVID CRANMER’s poems, short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in publications such as Punk Noir Magazine, Live Nude Poems, Needle: A Magazine of Noir, LitReactor, Macmillan’s Criminal Element, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. His debut chapbook, Dead Burying the Dead Under a Quaking Aspen, is now available. He’s a dedicated Whovian who enjoys jazz and backgammon. He can be found in scenic upstate New York where he lives with his wife and daughter.