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Welcome to Week 76 of Be the Change
The past few weeks have been an astounding whirlwind, between Trump narrowly avoiding being assassinated, Biden dropping out, and Kamala Harris raising $200 million in her first week since becoming the presumptive nominee. This week, I explore the "I'm excited about Kamala...but can a Black woman win over suburban white voters?" fear and line of thinking that runs through and poisons so much of our politics.
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Sprinkled amidst the euphoria of Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President were well-worn pebbles of angst...
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The Allure of Cliché: A Sonnet
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Neither the moon nor stars alone allure.
Celestial lips may good metaphors make,
yet we can’t long mere metaphor endure:
we seek cliché for companionship's sake.
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Were this duvet draped over you and I
I’d have no need to exercise my mind,
for it’s the body not the mind that dies.
If only I could the perfect words find
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I might countenance life's great solitude:
hard as love may be, it is harder to write.
Still I write you into my arms, O crude
reprieve from those interminable nights
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which beckon their own alluring relief!
What does the drowning man desire most?
Are we not all drowning in quiet grief
like shipwrecks ever-longing for the coast?
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I long for you is no dreadful cliché:
all poems fail; all vessels sail away.
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