Toady Boogie
(that's what it's all about-)
by SUSAN R. MORRITT

An ignoramus army patrols the world.

Every nook and cranny, infiltrated,

saturated with moulting scabs

of mange-bred fodder. Feeding the fire,

the scum coated, self-bloated as they toady

to their lord and master, the bully-boy

bastardized creator of petulant ire.

Go ahead–butt in line.

Strike from behind. Kick them

when they’re down.

I’ll be around when the dawn breaks

like a limb snapped with the whoosh

of a billy club’s swing.

In the frozen silence of this ever-shrinking sphere,

who dares to peer into the careless gaze

of indifferent tomorrow?

Susan R. Morritt is a writer, visual artist and musician from Waterford, Ontario, Canada. Her work appears in over forty journals, including 34 Orchard Journal, The Speckled Trout Review, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and Third Estate Art Decapitate Journal. She is currently marketing her first novel, while working on a collection of short speculative fiction and a poetry collection. Susan is a former racehorse trainer who earned her Diploma in Creative Writing and Fundamentals of Journalism while working full time with livestock.