White people sure don’t like being uncomfortable when we talk about racism,

A turkey is pardoned, 

though he committed no crime

We can’t make the country safer for us by attacking them. We are them. They are us.

The sigh of relief when the credits roll

and we can rest assured that no animals

were harmed in the making of this movie

If you are going to insist that 

America is unable to curb gun violence,

Yes, child, if you sexually abuse women, mock the disabled, threaten to persecute a religion…

Makes me wonder how much longer

you’ll take your beef charbroiled

on the flames of global warming 

The thrill of opening night, 

less than thrilling this time

Well that’s a reasonable assertion

if you celebrate Gandhi

…but not Washington

Plants feel pain,
as we all know
I won’t trim my hedges,
I cry when I mow

They stood proudly atop their pile of victims,

thanking her (or their shallow understanding of her)

Evaluating the amount of cat barf

against the proximity to my body

If I were, hypothetically, president of the United States and not racist or homophobic, and hate crimes and intimidation were being carried out in my name

Fishing is only

peaceful if you aren’t the one

swallowing the hook

Oh, Justice has a cane 

but it is not 

because she is blind 

Rows of bodies,

chopped or ground,

endlessly piled

and conveniently priced

for your selection

Lies raged unabated

Facts drowned with the tide

As they try to keep him in power

Hypocrisy

is saying you care about them

while simultaneously

paying for their death

Loneliness is a persistent muse

who creeps unexpectedly, unwanted,

awkwardly into my thoughts,

on her terms, in her time

I’m a feminist because it is 2019 and we shouldn’t have to debate if humans deserve equality or should be able to control their own bodies.