it doesn't matter what is said
they are just letters printed on a page
forming words that no one wants to understand
and the TV news
scrolls by at the bottom of my screen
eager to resist reading moving words
no one can read
because they care not to
the words make them dizzy
what's the headline today?
will anyone read between the lines?
the words are d
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p
p
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g
down the page
the words are dripping like blood
he has no idea what he's doing
it's his freedom or mine
everyone has the right
everyone has what's left
there is no in between
how easy it is to forget where we came from
and how far we have gotten
only to unlearn everything we have ever learned
to repeat history
and why is it only a handful of us see
what is going on?
what IS going on?
the headlines are chilly
and the headlines choose
and we lose the ability to think for ourselves
if we think it for long enough
and say it out loud repeatedly
does it become true?
or is it still one man's opinion
without any facts to back it up?
but he's correct
and i back up my opinion
with facts, but i am wrong
NO!
the facts are not wrong.
“we are slaves to the law so that we may be free,”
but only “our thoughts are free”
and now you dictate to me how i can feel
and when i can feel it
how to think, and when i can think it
without telling me why i can't feel or think this way
you don't ever think before you speak
and when you write it's something frivolous
“No Collusion”
“No Collusion”
“No Collusion.”
we've moved passed that conversation,
and until it comes up again
we'd like to move on to other things like
healthcare (oh, you're taking that away. I forgot.)
the economy (it sucks.)
climate change (you said it doesn't exist; yet everywhere
you look there is proof!)
school shootings (which you still haven't condemned)
your attack on....................everything and everyone
really? haven't you anything better to do?
“No Collusion”
“No Collusion”
“No Collusion”
two words I am sick of hearing
ad nauseum.
my words are hollow
they fall on deaf ears
for, i am just a mere woman
with an education
(brains! they're against me for my brains
we can let the zombie apocalypse begin!
i will fight these bastards with facts!)
i am just a mere woman
one half of the sky
and my body has nothing to do with every single one of you
just as yours has nothing to do with me
you can make me have children
but you'll be taking care of them
you can stick me in the kitchen
but i won't cook you a thing
you can knock on my door and
hand me your propaganda
you can try almost anything
but i still won't vote for you.
~Lady Samantha
May 30, 2018
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