The problem with paying attention
Is that it makes me wonder
Too often
Just what the hell we are evolving into

Shall we all evolve into comfort
With alternative facts
If so
Then we better also evolve 
Into new ways to live
In a destroyed world

Shall we evolve into an oligarchy
-- Have we already --
If so
Then I can stop listening
To news that may or may not be
Some billionaire’s alternative facts

Shall we evolve into a republic
With Robert F-for-fucking Kennedy, Jr.
Or Ron D-for-Demented DeSantis
As president

I believe it was e. e. cummings
Who observed that
There is a hell of a good universe
Next door
And we should go

(Even if it is just Canada)