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  • The System

    All of these men saying that if these were regular men they’d be in prison I had to leave my home when I was three father showed up with a gun when he found my sister, mother, and me, kidnapped my sister and me, the police did nothing, because he technically had custody, had family…

  • Mexico

    I was in my thirties, when I learned that depending on where you were, they call wars different things, In America, we have a war called the Mexican American War, the war for Texas, and I, well I am simply an Irish American woman with only a vague understanding of it all, but I think…

  • California

    Think of only happy thoughts something to make you smile absolutely nothing is wrong everything is fine my town looks the same it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine I do not wake up panicking I don’t live there anymore my state is fine nothing is fine I still have old classmates there and I wake…

  • How it happens

    It’s the friend that saw it happen at a party and said nothing It’s the bouncer at the club that knows their history and still allows them entry the employer who keeps them hired even though they have the reports in their HR desk It’s the cops that didn’t lock them up the first time…

  • La llorona

    There are too many tales of dead brides and wives and not enough tales of bad men who wind up dead for legal reasons, this is only a poem

  • Speak Now

    You know, the first thing America did was not believe a black woman, they accused her of witchcraft, all because she wasn’t like them, and when she wouldn’t say what they wanted, they tortured her until she agreed to what they said, and they teach the witch trials as a silly, hysterical thing, but our…

  • Nothing new

    This is nothing new, slave, serf, vessel, employee, parishioner, the terms have changed, but the game has not, we’ll take a piece of you, again and again, and you’ll worship us in the end, and thank us for the trouble, in taxes, in blood, in honor and glory, we’ll stomp on your corpses, from our…

  • A plague on both your houses

    You have voted for violence, I have chosen rage, you are allowing for blood to line the streets of your states and your people to wind up in graves, state sponsored funerals, will you pay for those, oh wait, there wasn’t any money for that, only for violence you cannot lead people if there’s no…

  • Pride and Prejudice

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that when people try to fight for the rights of others, they will come for those that do it.

  • Working out with my Fictional Boyfriend, Day 7

    Nothing quippy today. I managed to complete it despite everything happening…although I fell down a doom scroll on TikTok which is why it took so long to post this. Thoughts and prayers, Minnesota. Anyone who is surprised that we got to this point hasn’t paid attention because the whole of American History is women saying…