Volume Turned Up
Everyone is angry,
and everyone
takes a stand or has a stance,
something
about which they passionately feel.
Everyone,
everyone has found a hill,
and political spectrums
shed no light.
The hills are a range
which stretch from left to right.
Everyone is turned up,
volume raised.
Everyone is charged
and ready to charge.
Moral high grounds, though,
degrade
with the steadiness
associated with coastal erosion,
just as
those in dynamite factories
are in constant fear of an explosion.
Of course,
we have been ramped up
because
somehow, some people feel
that they have always been told to shut up.
So they fly flags
or rattle the GoFundMe cups.
Life‑long bags
reproach
the concept of what you felt you once had.
Everyone is angry,
but the anger is only ever stoked,
so many people wrongly invested
in the idea of small boats,
a world of people caught up in a storm,
like the bees,
so easily poked.
Volume turned up, volume so loud,
it is hard to hear whether the truth ever spoke.
James Garratt – Wednesday 10th June 2026
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Volume Turned Up – Written Wednesday 10th June 2026 (Aged 51)
