A student of human behavior
( I don't remember who)
once said its women's duty
to laugh at men in their
ridiculous Shriner suits.
Secret societies, ancient rules,
them and us.
Well, yes, that's amusing.
The ones under
the bedsheets in pointed hats
were never funny.
We thought their day was done.
Arturo Ui is in the streets again,
claiming rights to an alternate history.
A few months has passed--
who remembers Heather Heyer
run down and killed in Charlottesville?
Who cares?
Heather wasn't laughing.