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Interstate USA
Gaunt and grimy woeful cow
tied behind a tilted barn,
yellow-legged, knee-deep in mire,
staring with dumb accusation
at the endless traffic flow.
Sullen beast in deep malaise,
cowering under lowering clouds,
there’s omen in your vacant stare
and lassitude that chills my blood.
Is it indictment of the human race,
a portent of disaster?
The truth is everywhere to see:
the sad abuse of those who share
with us the earth; the fouling
of the sanctity of life,
the failure to look beyond profit,
the fury to crush and consume.
We betray a sacred trust,
spit out the herb and fruit
of the tree for meat.
Are we past indifference;
no longer feel, no longer care,
and like the master in his counting house
beyond the barn, lack fear of retribution?
Hugo De Sarro is a former adjunct college
English instructor. He has been published in a variety of journals, including
Eureka Literary Magazine, Calliope, Absinthe Literary Review,
Colorado Review, Pulsar, Snowy Egret, Oklahoma Literary Review,
formerly in Ascent: Aspirations, and other journals, here and abroad.
Email: Hugo De Sarro
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