Forcing the spring

April is the cruelest month, and it keeps getting crueler.  Last Sunday, ISIS suicide bombers in Sri Lanka killed nearly three hundred people in Christian churches and hotels, calling it retaliation for the March 15 mass murder of Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand (fifty dead, fifty wounded).  Today another fifteen Sri Lankans, some of them children, died in a police raid.  Then a man shot up a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one woman and wounding three others.  One of the injured was the rabbi leading the Yizkor service, commemorating the dead on the last day of Passover.  Did the killer write a manifesto?  However did you guess?  And he brags of burning a mosque in Escondido last month without getting caught and recommends it to his followers.  Calls himself a "European," but this thing of darkness is obviously ours.  Mosques, synagogues, black churches, gay night clubs, Planned Parenthood clinics, Democratic politicians, newspaper offices, television studios, all now targets of opportunity for the life-forms that crawled out from under the rock and into the bleak light of Trumpism.  

I want to write something funny.  Maybe later.