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How to Prepare for a Coup in a Pandemic
January 10, 2021

Sometimes, taking a break from the news and work,
I’ll spot the collected works of this or that poet
and, for a moment, have context for despair.

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Be The Change  / poetry

I Condemn the Attempted Coup
January 10, 2021

One might reasonably ask why any nonprofit, let alone a nonprofit lender, should dare to comment on politics. Isn’t that best left to pundits and politicians? In ordinary circumstances, I might agree—to a point. But these are not ordinary circumstances.

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Be The Change  / Capital Good Fund  / Politics

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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America on the Brink  / Be The Change  / poetry  / Politics

Let’s Not Repeat the Error of November 4, 2008
January 1, 2021

“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” – John Lewis

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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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America on the Brink  / poetry

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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America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics

An Open Letter to King & Spalding: Fire Rod Rosenstein
October 23, 2020

The only way to demonstrate your commitment to justice is to immediately sever all ties with Mr. Rosenstein, whose actions are diametrically opposed to the values you claim to espouse.

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Musings  / News  / philosophy  / Politics  / Prose

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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America on the Brink  / poetry

Love Sonnet Written on Learning That the President Has Been Hospitalized
October 4, 2020

We knew these would be hard years; at least we can laugh,
say I love you, watch for the flags at half-staff.

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A Love Sonnet Written on the Occasion of the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 19, 2020

I want to touch what aches in us, the light
we guard to stay alive. My dear, come quick.
I hear a knock; I’m afraid. Is it you?
I dare to open and let hope come through.

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