Popular Poems About Human Rights

One of the reasons that MAGA folks get so hung up on the letter of the law, particularly the specifics that their lawyers can semantically sabotage to their own perverted ends, is so that they can more readily mask their deep seated desire to use the law as a jurisprudentially rubber stamped vehicle to vicariously deliver the punishment that scratches their continual sadism itch, which they will never admit to.

And of course their deep seated desire for seeing punishment delivered leads to the ceaseless miscarriages of justice, that are so shocking to the rest of us, yet it is the...

The thing I fear the most in this world is bearing a child

Society wants me to believe that this is against my nature
But I was not born with the maternal instinct to nurture
Or if I was, it was ground down by who I called mother

Or maybe because I was thirteen
When I was shown how babies were made

(Months of me carrying only shame)

Or when Mother drove me to the Women’s Christian Clinic
Without a word of what would proceed

(I still can’t go to the gynecologist)

Maybe because my adolescent hormones...

Back in the 80's,
besides the music & concerts.

We didn't know what we were
going to do for the summer

Hopefully, some farmer
would want his bails of hay
stacked up in the loft.  

What good comes from the death
That you’ve contributed to?

What’s done with the energy you burn?

Are living things captured and slaughtered
For you to mundanely roam?

What resources have you dried up
For blood circulating in your veins?

The earth stripped away
How does that coffee taste?
How many injustices did it take?
Where will it rot this time?

We are an unsustainable nation
Who has traded comfort for misdeeds
We blame the ones who hold the reins
But we stay on our knees.

Are you outside in
Or inside out?

Where does the pressure hit you?

Did the news today
Take your breath away
Or was that the unresolved tension?

Do you want to scream or isolate?

Can you halt the growing suspicion
Our moralities flushed
Freedom's dust

(Or is it that the unempathetic,
Cruel, and malicious
Are at the forefront?)

Are you outside in
Or inside out?

What pressure are you putting?
 
Passivity will end this world.

Peace must be...