Autocrazy Autocracy
Autocrazy Autocracy with a nod to Peter Levitt Look around. Listen! We’ve gone crazy. Wild rhetoric, blatant lies, genuine cruelty Pandora’s box unleashed—canceling the Snap program so millions of children go hungry Upping healthcare costs, already unaffordable Sending troops to our cities to arrest us for peaceable protest A Sharpie signature no formed letters, no intellect— instead thick-black-bold up-and-down nonsense. Crayon fisted in his hand, a toddler’s first marks. Power over. Nothing else.
Ah..."Bread and circuses..." A term coined by the Roman poet Juvenal. (Sounds kind of like "juvenile," doesn't it?) O, our Roman predecessors! We learned much from them, except how not to repeat their mistakes...
Though opening your poem to the lie detector test gone wild was jarring and a bit of a warning for what was to come, I think you nailed it.