social justice
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We watched the same videosI saw murderyou recognized ‘stupid bitch’We watched the same videosI saw murderyou criticized his carrying a gunWe watch the same videosI see peaceful protestorsyou label singing marchers‘violent agitators’ We watch the same videosI see smashed car windowsdragging people though themgross overreachgovernment sanctioned chaos, intimidationlicensed carnage unethical, immoral at every turn you… Read more
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Our path to perdition startedat not eating French frieswound through calling gasoline ‘freedom molecules’imagined ‘wars’ on Christmas, culture veering torepeatedly shooting upcases of light beer light-on-logic moves, each For the past few generations Americans have done more of their critical reading in supermarket checkout lines than libraries Eliminating our nation’seducation department only completes the process… Read more
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A woman I know mid-fiftieswent protestingfirst timer missing out asteenagerwith strict parentsshe wanted‘self-fulfillment’ Seeing her a fewdays later I asked if she foundwhat she had been seeking “Yes and no” she smiled ruefully“I fell in with a group of college kidswho poured milk on my face”quickly adding “for the tear gas” Her voice trailed.“It wasn’t… Read more
Ponderable polemics, poetic 