RED LINE
I’m more interested in armor than vulnerability. In war, we don’t expose our throat to the enemy. When we are being assaulted, our poetic professions of pain do not cause a perpetrator to pause in their cruelty. We continue to believe all the displays of outrage and empathy, calls to higher ground and virtue are […]
Begging and Bleeding
We continue to beg our lawmakers to do something about school shootings. We’ve begged for years. We just get more guns — and more shootings. We’ve begged for universal health care and mental health funding. Not getting that. In any reliable form. We begged for sensible immigration reform. FOR DECADES. We got a horrible destructive inhumane opposite. […]
A Brief Essay on Time
…on advocacy and heartbreak… Time passes differently for the privileged than for the neglected. For “the poor”, time is measured in packages of effort devoted to survival, the time it takes to earn your rent, the hourly wage, overtime (if you are lucky), the time it takes to scrounge up a meal. And waiting. The […]