Note: This week feels like reliving the nightmare of January 6 but one could not just look away. It was a close call. Closer than we ever imagined. It was more than just an attack of the Capitol, it was an assault on our democracy. And forty-four senators want to just look away, hide under their desks and not have to deal with the insurrection that killed five people, wounded many, and could have resulted in the deaths of so many more. So I wrote the piece below for these blind mice disgracing the Senate floor.

–Domani Spero

 

Forty-Four Blind Mice on the Senate Floor

Day 1 of the Second Trump Impeachment Trial

 

The “world’s greatest deliberative body”
Is now the world’s most cowardly one.
The most cowardly one for all to see.

Lookit! Except Sasse, Toomey, Cassidy
Also Collins, Romney, and Murkowski.

Poor senators like three blind mice
Three blind ones times fourteen plus two.

Watch them willfully go blind, go blind
In the service of self, not country.
In a chamber still fresh from that mad kind.

See how they run. See how run.
Who cut off their spines with a carving knife?

Have you ever see such a sad sight in your life
As forty-four blind mice on the Senate floor?

–February 9, 2021

 

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