We knew these would be hard years; at least we can laugh,
say I love you, watch for the flags at half-staff.
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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.
Fluorescent Fire
August 30, 2020
O fluorescent fire, O heat that singes but not does burn,
would that you could consume me, I might never rise again
to brave fascist bullets or heroically weed my vegetable beds.
“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”
WANTED: USPS Board of Governors
August 17, 2020
Feel free to download, edit, and share these “Wanted” posters widely–via social media; print it out and distribute widely; etc.
Call On The Fund for American Studies to Remove the Postmaster General from Their Board!
August 16, 2020
I am a concerned citizen writing to ask that you immediately remove Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General of the Postal Service, from the Board of Trustees of your esteemed nonprofit.
I’m writing to ask that you immediately remove Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General of the Postal Service, from the Board of Trustees of your esteemed college.
Template Letters to Send the Board of Governors of the USPS
August 15, 2020
We cannot let this stand; it WILL NOT stand. America is the land of the free and we’re gonna keep it that way!
An Open Letter to the Board of Governors of the USPS
August 15, 2020
I demand that you immediately fire the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, who is clearly doing the President’s bidding and turning the USPS into a partisan tool.