Frances Mac
Women’s Empowerment Panel
An adaptation of Donald Trump’s remarks made on March 29, 2017
thank you (this is resented) thank you (really she shouldn’t say this but what rough roof she has to give in full to be edible to seem a secret to tell a torn thank you thank you secret of pert secret of labor secret of would have been she’s celebrating the art of speak and stay) thank you very much thank you (such history beginning each generation the Adams who urge her – blessed roe – to live first round then as a maker untamed lain to the sky grit on the shoulders a titan only by will) thank you thank you thank you (will her daughter believe in herself or in nothing the leashed power of her homeless she the owner of chances she means to dare a bright truth for each and every one daughters granddaughters to stop thanking you)
Poems by Frances Mac have appeared in Epigraph Magazine, Burnt Pine Magazine, The MacGuffin, and Santa Clara Review. She hails from the Texas Hill Country and currently lives in Washington, DC.
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