Top Menu

Dear Reader, we make this and other articles available for free online to serve those unable to afford or access the print edition of Monthly Review. If you read the magazine online and can afford a print subscription, we hope you will consider purchasing one. Please visit the MR store for subscription options. Thank you very much. —Eds.

No horn blowing for me

Democracy and disinformation

The New Year 2025 dawns
and dread wells up in me.
How much will be taken
from us to enrich the rich

What will we lose – health
care, help in disasters?
Will the right finally destroy
last vestiges of the New

Deal like Social Security?
They want to privatize,
which means monetize
every service we need.

Families torn apart by men
who have no empathy except
for themselves and those
just like them: white, male

and moneyed. Push back
push back to the fifties
when their lives were golden
on top of all us serfs. Will

anyone blinded by media
ever stand up, see who are
their real enemies, not ones
they’ve been taught to hate?

Marge Piercy is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, plus seventeen novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and five nonfiction books.
2025, Volume 76, Issue 10 (March 2025)
Comments are closed.

Monthly Review | Tel: 212-691-2555
134 W 29th St Rm 706, New York, NY 10001