Recrudescence
What is your best defense?
A Villanelle of Resistance
What is your best defense
When the crude returns, it’s
Recrudescence!
Is there no more offense
Mean enough for justice,
What is your best defense?
The air grows ever dense,
This fog of disinformation,
Recrudescence!
News, nothing more than nonsense,
A national delusion,
What is your best defense?
Must we all join the dance,
Insanity, inanity ragin’
Recrudescence!
Effervescence,
Animation, gesticulation,
What is your best defense … for
Recrudescence!
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Oh this is good…and I’m not even sure of the proper pronunciation of “recrudescence”…but I certainly know the meaning…this piece hits you like a warm wet blanket in the Florida heat in summer…a blanket that a dog has been sleeping on…the re-emergence of those “puffy white boys” is wrapped up in this one word…recrudescence…
Remember, the battle is within…