Tip the Scale
Look –
I’m not saying
life is fair
but if we’re talking fair,
seems like we’ve got
many different ways to
rebalance the forces
that pull on the world.
Not big
defiant acts,
those are necessary
and heroic
and if you're taking those
swings
god bless you —
but i've been thinking
more about
our everyday
lives
like for every act of
political stupidity
we see on tv,
there's a sudden,
glimmering chance
to counter it
with our own act of
non-stupidity
say, picking up
a piece of factual
history
and educating
ourselves about it.
or
for every
episode of
The Bachelor
that airs
a urgent moral duty
to stop my
daughter
as she blithely
walks past me
on the way to
her room
and hug her
and kiss her
and tell her
i love her
you know,
for no reason.
We the people
are the opposite
of money
of politics
of Epstein's private fucking island,
and every day
we get to sprinkle a
little more humanity
and kindness
onto our side of those giant
teetering scales —
our collective
generational effort
to keeping those
heavy, groaning plates
tipped this way
toward us,
over this side
of the abyss.