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MLK Day, 2022
January 17, 2022

Every year the same poem, the same
lament, the same sickness. What if

things don’t get better, merely more
tolerable? What if we lay down our

lives and nothing grows over us—

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Be The Change  / poetry

Enough
April 17, 2021

After another week of mass shootings and police murder of unarmed Black men and boys; of despicable voter suppression laws; of political cowardice; and of corporate doublespeak, I’ve had it. For how much longer are we going to pretend that […]

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Another Ode to Dr. King
January 18, 2021

On the third Monday in January you’ll find me
writing an ode I can’t quite finish, like a New Year’s
resolution I’ll stick to next time, I promise.

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Be The Change  / poetry

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

The Righteously Aggrieved
June 22, 2020

When statues topple, they do little heaving.
You will not see them celebrate long their fall
or mount the wreckage on a wall.
(Who are you to ask that they applaud
your moment of awakening?

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America on the Brink  / poetry

How Can We Lose When We’re So Sincere?
June 14, 2020

The true traitor lacks not morals but moral imagination. I shall
no longer grant the premise that we must debate amidst the
rubble of a world the unimaginative have plundered—

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America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics  / Pragmatic Idealsim

Helium
May 29, 2020

The last thing he saw was the joy in her eyes.

Back home the flowers have wilted and the balloon,
twisting slowly in the now-stale air,
sinks lower and lower to the ground.

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America on the Brink  / poetry

Damnatio Memoriae
October 6, 2019

To resist through nonviolence, yes—
I’ll do what the data says is wise.
But to love is another matter:
I may wave the flag, but I am no patriot;
Is it not better to burn what they betray?

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America on the Brink  / poetry

Reichstag
February 3, 2019

It does not matter who lit the flame
That burned the Reichstag down,
Only that it burned and so few
Considered what cremation means
To those who long for proper burial.

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America on the Brink  / poetry

Questions On Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and Corporate Social Responsibility
September 9, 2018

I spend a lot thinking about whether or not for profit entities can be relied upon to be forces for social good, if they can be at all (see my post on impact investing, for instance). Thus Nike’s recent decision […]

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