SILENT IN THE FACE OF STUPID

Silent in the face of stupid
is all we can really do.
Stupid has friends.
You want stupid messing with you?
Then keep quiet. Stupid goes deep.
It loves. Of course it loves. You'll weep.
Stupid has thrived for generations,
molding itself to error in the profitable institutions.
In simple intimacy---
where not even secrecy is there---
(nothing stupid about intimacy
and its overhanging hair)
we can discuss stupidity gladly
and laugh at each other. We saw
stupidity forsake love---terrified to lay down the law.
You and I can explain our silence---
then sighing, be silent,
after saying what we saw.

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