Tag: protest poetry

Another plane departs, passengers shackled, under guard, off to rendition in Salvadorian prison, sent there by a man with 34 convictions. 77/365

Hush little baby, it’s no joke, they’ve gone and made it illegal to be woke. Head under covers, eyes closed to the lights, say goodnight to mother, and goodbye to your rights. 76/365

The Times saidDemocracy died in darkness.The Post saidDemocracy died in dumbness.Either way,the new kingdom mournsand awaitsthe accessionof Democracy II. 74/365

Blink and you’ll miss it they said, but every time I open my eyes it’s still there. Can someonepleasetell me when it’s gone? 73/365

The clocks that struck thirteen in 1984 are now going off continuously. 71/365

The newsies scattered, hawking the Daily Rigmarole to Monday commuters who never complained that all the names changed but the headlines stayed the same. 69/365

Future historians will speak of the American Involution, an inward-looking and inward-turning death spiral, the swirling detritus of former greatness flushed down a golden toilet. 65/365

Enjoy bargains galore at the End of Democracy Sale at the Late-Stage Capital Store! Save on the jobs of the solvers of problems you don’t have! Save on vital needs taken from people other than yourself! Save on hard-won rights taken from folks you wish didn’t exist! Supplies are limited. Buy now! 60/365

We live in the outlier timeline. Events here play out as never intended, but no hand intervenes because we are so amusing. 59/365

Given two options, the majority chose a hellish chaos of sloppy incompetence with cruel intent that daily reveals new contours of horror beyond prior expectation. 58/365

The fringes, unwise, unsafe, small-minded and cruel, proudly untrusting of science, logic, and fact, vengeful, vindictive, propelled by fantasies of power, eager to suppress their suppressors and call it freedom, are centered at greatest peril. 56/365

Turn that frown upside down, my petulant friend, as the nation around us careens toward its end. No use acting surly, at events that have surely proved right what we noted the last time you voted. 52/365