A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House
Aimee Pozorski
When Your Mom is MAGA
“How are you doing?” she texts to inquire.
Do not be an asshole, I am advised in reply.
My “best interests” are in her Christian heart—
And my son’s and his girlfriend,
Daughter of an immigrant from Asia.
“I pray your students will not be deported!”
Well then, you have a lot of praying to do.
People are DIEing. I sound like that girl at a party.
“Trump’s Aid Cuts Hit the Hungry in a City of Shellfire and Starvation”—
The Times Headline on Easter Sunday.
Mrs. Dalloway says Albania but means to say Armenia.
Well-meaning white folks ignorant to suffering others.
“How are you doing?” she writes to inquire.
“Fine,” I say. “Fine. Just a little sick.”
Aimee Pozorski‘s work has appeared in the Connecticut Literary Anthology, MERVox, Tiny Seed Journal, What Rough Beast, Paper Nautilus, The Twin Bill, Bending Genres, The Helix, and other journals. She is a professor of English and coordinator of the Racial Justice Certificate program at Central Connecticut State University. She lives in New Britain, Connecticut with her husband and two dogs.
Indolent Books and editor Michael Broder are back with another poem-a-day series as a creative response to the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House. The plan is to continue for all 1460 days of the 47th American presidency.
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