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Repost: An open letter to the Puritans (a poem)

2019/05/16 — 1 Comment

Upon learning that my state has an anti-abortion bill in committee that not only bans abortion from the moment of conception but also declares the state exempt from federal laws and federal court rulings, it’s time to repost this. (I have replicated my subsequent edits, so this version matches the one included in my newest collection of poems.) [Update 5/17/19: I received a reply from my state senator; the bill never received a hearing in committee, and is dead, since the 2019 legislative session has been adjourned.]

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Re-post: The year without Xmas (a poem)

2017/11/25

I originally wrote and posted this in 2016—after the election, but before we’d had a chance to see exactly how horrible the current administration would be. Here is the finished version included in This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life. (Note that the ‘six ghosts’ reference below is intentional. Although Scrooged is a re-telling of A Christmas Carol, the ghosts are unique enough that it did not feel right to consolidate them into just the three original ghosts.)

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You did this (a poem)

2017/11/15

The Seattle Times reports that the Seattle Police Department’s review of the shooting of Charleena Lyles a few months ago has found that it was ‘reasonable, proportional and within policy’. (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/seattle-police-review-finds-fatal-shooting-of-charleena-lyles-was-within-department-policy/) I originally posted this poem in June, shortly after the incident. I am reposting it now. Because.
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