I am spinning in the spin
of unchained polar air,
of the politics of a planet melting
at the tips and freezing
more in the middle
and they call it spin,
they call it science made opinion:
one out of four Americans
does not believe the sky
is past falling and pools at our feet
in a blue groundwater rush
that is half plastic
scrape the mud of it from your boots
like dogshit.
I am spun from words
and the planet pirouetting
on its axis. I reel within stars and orbits
and circle some more,
no longer searching
because the truth is less important
than its turn.
Susan Daniels Poetry 
so glad you haven’t rusted in your absence – love it
Aw, thanks Paul. I have been buried in work, and spinning 😉
Hey–I belong to a political discussion group that is down a conservative. Wanna come play with us?
I thank you for the invitation, but my much-surgeried heart can’t take the debate anymore – so what did the lost conservative die from?
Hee, hee. It is more of a civilized discussion group, and this guy–well, his head blew off in the midst of an anti-islamic rant 😉
I’ve expressed my share of such rants
Haven’t we all…
Good work on this one. I was just writing about this phenomenon this morning. I’m astonished that people “don’t believe in” global climate change. As if it’s the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny. Yikes.
Yeah. As if opinion stacks equally against truth.
Yup.
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Love it. 🙂
Aw, thank you!
You’re welcome. 🙂
Made me think of the old children’s song, “Henny Penny, the sky is falling”–something like that. “I am spun from words”–oh, how I love that–me too!!!
Brilliant observation of this world of spin.
Anna :o]
Spin and turn, and distract from the truths… we might well and truly be fucked, Susan, but I don’t think so. The shysters and the story-tellers will lose this little battle, just a skirmish really – the real war is with the heavens, and we better not lose.
I like how you position yourself as the speaker and observer, not to mention sensing being. This resonates with me, Susan. In fact it makes ache. . . which seems exactly right.
so many great images to “spin” in here, if you excuse the pun, but how I like “does not believe the sky
is past falling and pools at our feet
in a blue groundwater rush
that is half plastic”. You’ve also got a perfect balance between the internal and external here