Deborah Bacharach
F It
The morning after Trump, I woke forsaken,
freaked out, what with
Forty-five fragging our country.
Freaked out isn’t far enough. The air fouled,
the EPA a foxtail Trump hung in his truck
to wave at the wankers like me. Me and Emma Goldman,
we phone our senators. A fortress of friends
all fandango together tonight.
Give us a minute, we promise to be less afraid.
Deborah Bacharach is the author of After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Arts & Letters, Blue Mesa Review, and The Texas Review, among other journals. Her work has also appeared in Jump Start: A Northwest Renaissance Anthology (Steel Toe Books, 2009), edited by Lonny Kaneko, Pat Curran, and Susan Landgraf; A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Poetry (Calyx Books, 2002), edited by Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman, and Carole Simmons Oles; and Sex and Single Girls: Women Write on Sexuality (Seal Press, 2000), edited by Lee Damsky. She is a writing tutor in the Seattle. Find out more about her at DeborahBacharach.com.
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