“People Like Us” by Robert Bly, from Stealing Sugar from the Castle (Norton 2013)
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Muddy Bank 
The poem has nice movement, from extreme sadness, maybe over the top sadness, as the world “cleanses itself”, eugenics anyone? But then its optimism comes around. I confesss I don’t understand how “in death you’re safe”.