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Published in Out On a Limb, an Anthology For Friends, June 2022

In this country Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country Silicon Valley tramples on free-speech norms Corporate elites rig systems to transfer wealth and live more royally than kings of yore, while Children hunger for food for love for protection from abuse Where are the marchers, the protesters with cardboard placards funded by big money, Declaring that these, the youngest of us have a right to a life? That simply being born is not enough? Where are those God-fearing pickets?

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