
Poems and an occasional Essay
Ruminations of an Angry Cow
Let Us Love
We can’t make the country safer for us by attacking them. We are them. They are us.
When We Fail to Notice the Cracks in Our Looking Glass
If you are going to insist that
America is unable to curb gun violence,
Watching the Election Results
Yes, child, if you sexually abuse women, mock the disabled, threaten to persecute a religion…
Because They Fucking Do
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.
Confessions of a Senator
We sit in the senate
so proud and so male,
so straight and so Christian,
so old and so pale
Locked Up in the Land of the Free
We fled here for safety,
they said it was great
You bragged about freedom,
I’m locked in a crate
Mexico Said No, Though You Never Ask for Consent
Standard procedure, par for your course
You don’t seek permission, you have no remorse
The Obituary of Checks and Balances
Preceded in death by its beloved spouse, the late Integrity,
and their children, Facts and Evidence
Updating Their Slogan
GOP: The party of family values!
Us: You separated asylum seeking children from their families and lost them
Orwell Seems Less Like Fiction Every Passing Day
The swamp is swampier, the debt is, um, debtier,
and Mexico hasn’t paid a fucking dime towards a non-existent wall
Voting, Because the Toilet Won’t Unclog Itself
Sometimes Democracy gets clogged with
greed and corruption, lies and obstruction
The Question on Everyone’s Mind
Mr. President, a question I’d like to pursue,
What the fuck is wrong with you?!
Father Knows Best
Shouting frantic hyperbole over some non-existent attack on the right to bear arms, while what you truly came for was the right to their womb
Tone-Deaf Karen’s Tone-Deaf Meme
Martin looted nothing, Martin burned nothing, Martin attacked no one, reads tone-deaf Karen’s tone-deaf meme