“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx

take care
with how you rub dizzy
silver iridescence
into spurts 
of violent smoke

city, sand, 
or jungle . . . 
genie’s bottle . . .
do not draw too close
to the explosion

*from Proverbs 23:3