when the yahoo is ascendant

 

yahoos

as a species we vary between the yahoo and the temperate,

it is hard to not be repelled by the garish and self-indulgent,

I watch vehicles roar into the national park,

blaring "music" so loud that they must need

to write their life in all caps,

with a lot of exclamation marks,

what they have to say

must be of so little value that they must shout it

and hope that volume will mask the lack of substance,

where are we as a species

when so many of us think freedom is license?

that when I flaunt my consumption

it will somehow make me happier?

that the more I have, the better?

and who cares about "the least of these our brethren"?

I do,

I fear when the yahoo is ascendant.

by Henry H. Walker

August 23, '25