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Don’t Let the Fascists Win
November 25, 2019

To write is to argue without evidence that beauty
pervades: the rainforest and the killing field,
sunsets and floods of acid rain on I-95.

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America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics

Slogans Are Easy
November 3, 2019

We can never atone for the billions
spent on dark dreams
sawed through with ease,

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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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Waiting in Line to Donate Blood After A Mass Shooting
August 4, 2019

This is where we come together,
Not before but after:
The blood already drained,
We refill it;
We never lack for blood to give.

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When is it too Late?
July 20, 2019

Last week 1,000 Jews and allies
Surrounded ICE Headquarters in protest
Chanting Never Again
Like a shofar sounding pain
From Auschwitz to Gulag to Mount Sinjar

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March
April 13, 2019

Three Marches have come and gone
Like a public bus come to my street
Before giving up and moving on.
Each time I’ve seen them through windows
Fogged with the steam of my growing rage,

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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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The Machinery of the State
July 29, 2018

A relentless South Texas wind poses impossible questions,
Flaps the smirking flags until they are upturned,
Mists the mown grass with evil’s sputum,
Ripples the lone unarmed security guard’s shirt
As he waves concentration camp employees

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Can Love Trump Hate?
July 22, 2018

This is an oversimplification, but one way to think about the Civil Rights Movement, especially from the mid-to-late 1960s, is that there were two philosophical approaches: Dr. King’s faith-based, inclusive, nonviolent strategy; and Malcom X’s Black Power, “the bullet or the ballot,” movement.

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What I Saw in McAllen and Brownsville, Texas
July 21, 2018

“The trouble with [Nazi war criminal and participant in the Final Solution] Adolf Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. 

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