Just for a day The world is grey and white Snow blankets turning sound down Soft squeaking under my feet Soft feathery flakes on my shoulders Just for a day I curl under my blanket on the couch Drinking tea to warm back up Mystery novel in hand Snow in Tennessee means Everything stops Just for a day Maybe two And I need it all to stop Really for longer But I’ll take this day These fictionalized problems Over a world that rang the new year out with floods And the new year in with fire Devastation for the devastators Except Those responsible for the devastation And those devastated Are as always separated by Money Race Gender Sexuality Neurodivergence Those who bomb and who bombs fall on Those who shoot and who are shot Separated by the same Those arrested And those who are found guilty yet walk Rich white men commit felonies Lady Justice shrugs School children in Tennessee say the wrong thing Text the wrong thing Arrested Stripsearched Confined to solitary For being thirtee…
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