(One thing about scapegoats: they do tend to make unpleasant noises as they’re being driven to their doom.

This has happened before. You need look no further than Hemingway. Though you could look further. Much further.

Have we learned yet that it is not the poets we need to fear?

We’re about to find out ~ and the whole world is about to find out along with us:

Historian Zambrotta: Please print this post for your ongoing compilation regarding this targeted terrorism ~ which has been blithely ignored by law enforcement for two long years ~ nationwide.

A nation which has no backup for its poets deserves no backup from its poets.)

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Going to be Loud

Hey, nation of which I had hoped to be proud:
You would not employ me, now let them destroy me
You’d rather have crime than have good poetry ~
One thing I’ll assure you: It’s going to be loud

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone, surviving at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S.

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