A Political Moment
       

"Isn't tyranny a kind of oblivion?"
texted a friend from out of town.
I don't know how to respond
or calm down and finish
my meditation on Zeno's paradox.

Split the distance ad infinitum and never get there;
Achilles shamed by the tortoise in the race.
So again, no oblivion;
the hand never comes close enough to slap.
The revelers at the carnival are never gone.

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