They’re coming for the artists first.

Then they’re coming for you. And So, It Ends is a searing poetic chronicle of authoritarianism’s rise, the complicity it breeds, and the cold silence that follows collapse. Armando Heredia moves from fracture to fallout across five acts, giving voice to the monsters we make, the deals we strike with power, and the gaslighting that passes for politics. These poems name names. They quote scripture and Pulp Fiction in the same breath. They refuse to look away from the red hats, the golden razors, the grave mistakes, and the lonely king frozen under museum glass. Urgent, angry, and unexpectedly lyrical, And So, It Ends is for anyone who has ever asked: How did this happen? and What do I do now? Available as Amplified Poetry, so you can read it. Then listen to it out loud.