The default gender is male
The default language is English
The default city for poetic edge is New York
The default shirt size is large
The default home heating is natural gas
The default gun caliber is twenty-two
The default mode of death among young black men is homicide
The default asylum status is denied
The default lines fissure gape engulf
For we do not admit our defaults we do not atone
Too bad there's no default god
This poem was published in issue VIII of the Heron Clan anthology.
Andy Oram
November 26, 2019