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BABEL

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by Rachel Voss As a poet in the Internet Age, you find, through a quick search, that the image you seized upon during a walk to do laundry is not, sa…

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TWO NEW NEWS BROADCASTS

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by Alice Twombly I The Evening News: July 4, 2018 A stag, with a full rack of antlers, stands stationary on my front lawn at d…

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MY LITTLE TYRANT

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by Sergio A. Ortiz Image source: The Onion And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anythin…

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HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME

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by Rick Mullin Here we have the world turned on its head. It comes: The Zero Hour Inauguration. Skies grow orange and the trees glow red. It brings …

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A FRIEND BREAKS HIS RENAISSANCE SWORD ON A PAPAYA

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by Kristina England Any fruit can hide the fierceness of its rinds. We should never believe the weapon invincible. Record low temperatures today, ris…

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THUMPED

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by Peter Krass Caricature by DonkeyHotey We get up from bed, but can’t be awake. This must be a bad dream, a nightmare, though sunlight burns behind …

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POEM FOR THE INAUGURATION

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by Jon Wesick I hope I’m wrong, so wrong my name becomes slang for a tragic blunder as in, “Custer sure pulled a Wesick at the Little Bighorn!” I hop…

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JANUARY 13TH, 2017

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by Marc Swan https://www.womensmarch.com In a short hop against convention, my wife and I were married on a Friday the 13th. Today a road trip to hon…

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MY GRANDMOTHER, A SHAMAN, HAS WORDS FOR THOSE WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP

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by Ron Riekki She recites a prayer, or perhaps it’s a curse, that the souls of the unjust will also have years to howl, that their revelation will sh…

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ELECTION SHOCK, TWIN CITIES, 2016

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by Sue Reed Crouse You will tire of using his face to pick up dog shit. You will quit saying cataclysm because cataclysm unites a country. You will c…

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THE SHIP OF FOOLS

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by Darrell Petska In Plato's Republic a ship of fools sailed— can you see one now, just rounding the bend? Already the ship lists heavily, its n…

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ALTERNATIVE FACTS:ESCHER MEETS KAFKA

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by Kenneth Arthur "Relativity" by M.C. Escher Hooded walkers circle the courtyard stairwell intent on mysterious missions, ascending, desce…

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EXPECTING A TRUMP PRESIDENCY

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by Michael T. Young Eviction of Nikkei from Bainbridge Island, March 1942. Image source: Friends of Minidoka . Most of the Japanese-Americans interne…

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TERRIFIED

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by Marsha Owens Image adapted from Scott Brundage Illustration . Who are you? roared the Cyclops. I’m terrified , I whispered back. And well you sho…

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PRUITT’S PSYCHO FANCY

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an erasure poem by James Penha derived from Scott Pruitt’s resignation letter It has been an honor to serve you Truly your confidence in me has bless…

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RESISTANCE

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by Joan Colby You learn to build strength By resistance. Hoisting the 10 pound weight With your shattered wrist, Screwed and bolted into a titanium p…

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IN OUR ETATS-UNIS

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by Elizabeth Kerlikowske the republic is kaput. We have turned our dhabarkoodas to the banderas which the Tribunal Supremo says we can burn, hoping f…

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ACUTE

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by Barbara A Taylor acute trumpitis the doctors’ surgeries are overflowing "Each day demands that I write and that my fingers touch and feel …

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SOME WORDS FOR MEANWHILE

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by Lucia Galloway Poster by Jennifer Maravillas for the Women's March on Washington There is only this way, this one way, to breathe while rai…

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WINTER STARS

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by Buff Whitman-Bradley Winter Sky Rising by Alan Dyer at The Amazing Sky Stepping outside To watch the winter stars Those dazzling divas of illumina…