Tale of Two Cities

Laurence Musgrove’s newest project is Texas Poetry Assignments. He previously published my poem, The Work of Inauguration. Today he published Tale of Two Cities on the Capitol Riots of January 6, 2020. Reading it in light of subsequent news (stolen laptops, people photographing papers), it may turn out to be naïve (I assumed there would not be a repeat) and prescient (I point out a couple of hours of trashing politicians’ offices is not enough to overturn a government).