The ABC’s to WTF is happening in the USA

By: Zenobia

The ABC’s to WTF is Happening in the USA By Zenobia

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Alcohol abuse is an addiction and accepted as way to dull the aching in this nation,

and like apathy, has dulled any sense of direction, aloof ankles, onward and up the American way.

Black women were rising bright statistics, busy earning, best educated, but

because no one listens (we didn’t vote for this, check the statistics) we became big business’s first

Cut. Come on sis, we’ll overcome—again, this climate of covetous tongues,

celebrating our losses, but they’ll come calling when the market crashes asking, How come?

Don’t be disrespectful. Our domestic terror desert is full of deplorable dystopian dictators

dancing drunk with minor dependents and disappearing

Evidence, I mean explain Epstein and executives?—each one of them exemplifies how Jesus easily

escaped greed, but even he could not escape Israeli influence.

For foreign allegiance, for which it stands, for some Dems and for every Republican, not

forty days and forty nights, it only takes forty thousand dollars + forty seconds to

Gerrymander good conscience and grip the gullet of good sense while mass graves grow in the

guts of the earth with grieving children because we can’t get gun control.

How many miles to get to a freedom like heaven? The better question isn’t how many; rather,

how hot does it feel facing the heat of your decisions, how heavy? Hmmm?

I’m saying, it has been too often, that indoctrination in His name is ill informed; indeed,

I insist— much of this mis-information is intentional.

Justice jumped ship. I marched, then jogged and I’d jump heights of jubilation to find it, but I

just ran out of patience. We just have to do the right thing.

Kidnapped kids in unmarked vans without due process? Is ICE fighting crime or

killing our Constitution, with covered faces like the KKK.

Love might fix it, but bell hooks lamented its abuses, love is not a paid subscription—look,

lusty AI relationships, rot the brain and drain our plains of liquid life—

Make America mean everything it says, if it ever was supposed to be for

me and every citizen, then, why house speaker—Mike J, say

“No kings was ANTIFA.” (wtf) “…And hateful.” (wtf), NO, you know it

never was. What is more American than nullifying a monarchy?

Oh say, can you help me see—what is happening to our country?

Our edges are out in the open, we can’t come together honestly.

Picture us- pineapple punch, drumstick and chips, a Superbowl halftime

performance, segregated, in the year of our Lord 2026, petty

Quarreling because a brown Bunny, is singing in Puerto Rican American Español,

“¡Que paso, Mami!,” at the half time show? Que loco, right?

Right? The left and the right wings forgot they can’t fly

ripping out their own feathers. We are on the same eagle ride,

Same country and shoot, we’re swiftly

self-destructing live, shooting blame on social media,

Throwing memes, threatening people, but please

take to a mirror, take to your knees to cower like

Ungulate beasts, ugly kissing his feet—orange Cheat-toes. It’s

unbelievable, everyone fears untouchable billionaires and

Violent retribution, but if one hero could release the files of these

“very fine people” could very well mean the vindication of justice over the vicious few.

We need to get serious, Washington.

Watch over The People’s rights and not our every waking move.

Xenophobia has us fighting each other, it’s

Xanadu on ICE, a sideshow of distraction.

You know what’s happening—your eyes saw before the influence of commentary.

Yeah, you better use critical thought and save any fast yeses for yourself!

ZZZ…Wake up! Nap time is over, but this nightmare will stay open if we do nothing, a

zeitgeist of madness for money and power with zigzagging teeth!

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 Zenobia is an Afro-Caribbean writer and dentist who was born in Queens, New York, and raised across the South. She has practiced dentistry since 2009 and has lived in San Antonio, Texas, with her family for more than 15 years. She received the Mosaics Diaspora Award 2025 for her poetry collection Mosaics of the Mother. Her sonnets will appear in the forthcoming Shakespearean anthology from Quillkeepers Press, All the World’s a Page, in 2026. Zenobia's poetry received honorable mention by the Dark Poets Society and is published in Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora.