Sports Talk with the Fall of Democracy by Chad Parenteau

Boston Herald said

while Democracy strained

game four down

the Celtics fans that night

had paid

two thousand apiece

just to yell out

fuck you Draymond

boo

while capitalists

fretted

over cost 

crying over gas

overpriced

from wokeness

while incidentally 

off front and

back page

footage unreported

that showed

Democracy falling

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, The New Verse News, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Nixes Mate Review and the anthology Reimagine America from Vagabond Books. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His second collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award. "This WCW take came from picking up a Boston Herald the morning after the January 6th committee testimonies aired and finding absolutely zero coverage of it. Fox News isn't the only enemy."