45/20 Rising

20 mass shootings that’s 4+ shot/killed in 27 days

of February bringing this leap year total to 45.

will the latest virus, Covid-17, surpass those numbers?

numbers at work/play in humanitarian crises at four 

hotspots around the globe, war/famine, 2020 ways.

45 visited bankrupt/flush marble built for death

in childbirth, a beautiful monument of love from a man,

notation, now questions swirl as India counts the dead.

vilified slaughter, clash of religions, try to understand!

45 billion barrels, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,

20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids at Wolfcamp Shale

and Bone Spring Formation of the Delaware Basin. fracture–

the wall goes up, Organ Pipe Cactus blows up, human/nature–

45/20 countless fabrications of the myth of revolutions stun...

hush don’t say anything without clearance, whistleblower peppery

words. maintain that number 5 billion, not 8. free speech jeopardy!

45:20 rising of perfect vision, draw near 45 not even talking about a gun.

2045 past time to prove maturity, mastery, not of nature but of oneself.

passionately believe in the perfectibility of the human; crown or farewell.