We The People Thank You (Falettinme In Traduce My Self, Again) by Daniel García Ordaz
We the people willingly wrote ourselves into a constitutional corner— a colossal conundrum of corrupted consummation, a Cain-enabled Original Sin of biblical proportion. The Virginia Compromise left us compromised, incomplete— a three-fifths fraction that fractured our nascent faction replete with built-in failure: a self-inflicted wound, an aggravated assault of our own fault, a festering sore […]
July 4th Independence Day by Regina Jamison
We are cautious around flag wavers their eyes shine like dead stars their stripes turn black and white for me their pledge of allegiance a grievance unanswered cautiously I mumble the words fearful of the word traitor independence wasn’t / isn’t meant for me and every firecracker a gunshot in the back every flag a […]
The Big, Queer, City by PW Covington
When water tower town Public school health teachers Teach health They teach to the test And, then, small town grads Grab weapons of war And storm the state Capitol Because the test barely touched on Immunology Just chastity And Say No to Drugs Another generation, scared of their genitals And, to stay away, naturally From […]
Just Is by Daniel García Ordaz
It’s not enough to rename a streetMartin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.What we want is for government to cease its regardFor a system of justice that’s blind to injustice:Blatantly biased—based on class, rank, and status—Unabashedly obsessed with the names of one’s kinPerpetually fixated on the color of one’s skinInstead of focusing on fixing a broken systemThat […]
