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The Internet Is a Cesspool; God Bless the Internet: A Villanelle
February 20, 2021

Not much that goes viral is true
(what passes for truth these days?);
but let’s keep this between me and you.

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America on the Brink  / Be The Change  / poetry

Relief
January 20, 2021

Find joy in the little things:
the glint of rust on flagpoles at dawn,
or squeak of shoes on desecrated marble.
Imperfections I’d given up on.

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Requiem for Senator Josh Hawley’s Book Deal
January 9, 2021

How lovely it would be to live in a nation where
poetry put down insurrections. Then I might bang out
this stanza and go sue a wolf for stealing the moon.

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Te Deum: The Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions on Houses of Worship
November 28, 2020

At last I’m free to visit Church today;
What State dare silence this ecstatic hymn?
Hallelujah, O Lord, how oft we pray
to be free—and now we’re free! Yet we brim

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Life After Dodging A Bullet
November 21, 2020

I try on a suit to look handsome for the moon
ask the mirror what I’ve gained and what I’ve lost.

I mourn the death of those yet to die,
seek an urn to hold the ashes of what might have been.

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A COVID-Safe Love Poem
October 29, 2020

Even the dead weep for our isolation;
in the pit of night, I dream of you at my
side, bleary-eyed, maskless. We stare
out the same window at the same desolation.

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Watching Workers Plant a Tree in the Park While My Son Plays Nearby
October 25, 2020

Is it too late for things that hope to grow?
What does it say that the sapling’s leaves
have already turned?

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Will We Get Away With it?
October 24, 2020

Here we reward the worst crimes with a cushy job
at a White Shoe law firm that does pro bono work
for the ACLU.

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On Reading That Some Physicists Posit We Are Living in a Computer Simulation
October 16, 2020

If life is a lucid dream or some near-perfect
computer simulation, do I risk waking up
to a world in which I can’t embrace you?

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Promises to Myself After Trump Loses the Election
October 12, 2020

While the Enola Gay circled overhead, I gained weight,
and obsessed over coverage of its flight: Would we be spared,

or perish? What orders have been given, and who or
what will the pilot obey? We paid for the plane and…

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