“Society Must Be Defended” [by Jerome Sala]

Society Must Be Defended

from this poem. Its inconsequence is a problem.
A problem Society doesn’t know about.
Problems known, as we all know (don’t we?)
can be harvested, like souls in need of repentance.
But the uncounted are worse than the uncooperative.
They are likely to increase or disorganize
the way of all flesh if allowed to bask
on their undiscovered beaches. Many unknowns
are out there. They are, in fact, known as “the many.”
The only traces they leave are something like black holes.
You know you see something, but on closer inspection,
you’re just gazing at absence. No one blames you
for looking away. After a while, all social space
seems more and more empty. That it goes on
like this for infinity. Scary. But not to worry.
Authorities assure us this too must end.