GOOD FOOLISHNESS

by Michael L. Ruffin

We've been through

some bad foolishness

the last four years.

We'll go through

more foolishness

the next four. 

We'll see efforts to do

foolish things such as

expand health care,

address climate change,

deal rationally with pandemics,

address systemic racism,

follow science, and

seek economic fairness.

Such efforts will

face resistance,

confront opposition, and

be labeled radical.

They'll make progress.

We'll make progress.

Get ready 

for more foolishness,

for necessary foolishness,

for meaningful foolishness,

for compassionate foolishness

for positive foolishness,

for helpful foolishness

for hopeful foolishness.

Get ready 

for good foolishness.

Michael L. Ruffin is a writer, editor, preacher, and teacher living and working in Georgia. He posts poems on Instagram (@michaell.ruffin) and prose opinions at On the Jericho Road. He is author of Fifty-Seven: A Memoir of Death and Life and of the forthcoming Praying with Matthew. His poetry has appeared at The New Verse News, Rat's Ass Review, 3 Moon Magazine, and U-Rights Magazine.

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