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Fraiku: Grievances
No more war, No bombs, No graft, No grift, No Kings, No Pedophile-in-Chief (Let’s hit the streets tomorrow and petition our government for a redress grievances. It’s in the Constitution. No Kings!
Fraiku: No Kings
Gather. Assemble. Not so you don’t feel alone. So no one else does. Tomorrow, Saturday October 18th: Find an event near you. You are not the only one who sees the danger, the insanity, the corruption of the Republican regime.
Fraiku: Summer Solstice
Let’s turn up the heat under the moneyed elites and march in the streets Happy June Solstice! (Sorry about the rhymes.)
Fraiku: No Kings
sigh After two hundred fifty years, we have to do it all again. (Find an event near you)
Support the Troops
Will you thank them for their service when they gun down your neighbors for marching in the streets? Will you salute our soldiers, as they kick down your door in search of undesirables? Will you praise their sacrifice as they … Continue reading
Fraiku: Campus
Listen the protestors, unkempt, thin and idealistic, they are usually right.
Hell Hath No Fury
Mother Nature marches alongside her angry daughters in pink hats and sensible shoes wind howling protest We chopped down her forests planted crops — erected fences claimed her as property exploited — leaving her empty Allied with her fellow women … Continue reading
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long,but it bends toward justice.” Justice does not come from policeexecuting choke holds and no-knocks. Justice comes from citizens of consciencebreaking unjust laws and accepting punishment. Freedom does not come from an armyof … Continue reading
Fraiku: Tehran and Washington
Women march in the streetprotesting theocracymaybe Gods are the problem
Earth Day 2022
For today’s prompt (the final Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the month), write a love and/or anti-love poem. Earth Day 2022for Wynn Bruce You sacrificed yourself for us— for all of us outside the Supreme Court While we drove our hybrids wrote … Continue reading
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 