You would have to have your heads up your asses to expect us to take back power and not exact political revenge.
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Will We Get Away With it?
October 24, 2020
Here we reward the worst crimes with a cushy job
at a White Shoe law firm that does pro bono work
for the ACLU.
An Open Letter to King & Spalding: Fire Rod Rosenstein
October 23, 2020
The only way to demonstrate your commitment to justice is to immediately sever all ties with Mr. Rosenstein, whose actions are diametrically opposed to the values you claim to espouse.
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If life is a lucid dream or some near-perfect
computer simulation, do I risk waking up
to a world in which I can’t embrace you?
Promises to Myself After Trump Loses the Election
October 12, 2020
While the Enola Gay circled overhead, I gained weight,
and obsessed over coverage of its flight: Would we be spared,
or perish? What orders have been given, and who or
what will the pilot obey? We paid for the plane and…
How to Survive an Apocalypse
October 11, 2020
Humanity risks extinction because
we love the wrong things too much.
I am under no illusions. To love you is
to resist oblivion, to laugh at craters.
We knew these would be hard years; at least we can laugh,
say I love you, watch for the flags at half-staff.
A Love Sonnet Written on the Occasion of the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
September 19, 2020
I want to touch what aches in us, the light
we guard to stay alive. My dear, come quick.
I hear a knock; I’m afraid. Is it you?
I dare to open and let hope come through.
Strolling Great Hollow Beach, Cape Cod 50 Days Before the Election
September 15, 2020
After four years, it has come to this:
I fear that all I love will go to ruins,
and my little son is playing on the dunes.
Confessions of a Private Grief
September 6, 2020
I have lived as free as a fragrance on the wind,
as shackled to the earth as the vine that produced it.
May I confess in a poem what is forbidden us in prose?
About Me
Andy Posner
I am the Founder & CEO of Capital Good Fund, a nonprofit social venture seeking to tackle poverty through financial services. I am also a writer, poet, cyclist, and avid reader. Enjoy my blog!