Caren Krutsinger Poet Prose Poetry

Lets Unite the World

“Let’s unite the world! “ The exuberant pretty teenager yelled.
She was shaking a yellow sign in the street. She had torn jeans.
A plethora of tattoos snaked up her arm, and her bellybutton showed.
I agree! I screamed, honking and shaking my fist.
She gave me the finger. I wondered how that united us.

“Let’s unite the world! “ The check- out lady at the grocery said.
I agree! I said with full head on enthusiasm. Shall we start with us?
She glared at me with pineapple points and said “I was talking to her”
Oh. They lady behind me.
I kept quiet after that.

“Let’s unite the world!” the mama said to her drag-queen daughter.
Her daughter laughed until she thought she would fall off the couch.
We cannot even agree backstage after a show who goes first.
Goes on stage first?
No. Who gets to leave first; no one wants to clean.

“Let’s unite the world!” the five-year-old suggested to his mama.
What a smart child she thought. He really is onto something.
Then she turned on her TV set which taught her to hate liberals.
She did not know what they were, but now she hated them.
I know because she is related to me and I am a liberal's liberal.

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Shirley Hawkins March 19, 2022 at 10:14 PM Let's look on and wait for someone else to make the effort. Caren Krutsinger March 20, 2022 at 3:45 AM Hahaha I am choking with laughter here

L Milton Hankins March 19, 2022 at 8:05 PM Boy! You hit the nail on the head with this one. I hesitate (occasionally) to tell someone I'm a liberal because it has become such a hated word. Yet, when I tell folks what liberals believe, many of them say, "Well, I guess I'm a liberal, too, 'coz that's how I feel!" Isn't that strange! Statistics/polls tell us most Americans are liberals, but many are ashamed to admit it because of the negative connotation. Caren Krutsinger March 20, 2022 at 3:45 AM Most are, but they do NOT KNOW what THEY are.