Snow fell.
Quiet reigned
aboriginal and free
amid snow’s mystery.
Only the rabbits
left their tracks
to let us know
life still goes on
despite levels of emergency
tossed to and fro
by weather-casters
who took over the news
while Ukrainian children were bombed,
while fishermen’s boats were blown apart,
while military heroes were called traitors,
while brown and black people were secreted away
to secret places behind fencing and weapons,
while scientists were silenced by conspiracy,
while money poured in to false fronts
put in place by false leaders spouting false claims,
while real drug-runners, insurrectionists, rapists and worse
were pardoned and promoted to prod us to succumb
to the darkness weighing down our days as well as our nights.
And still,
the snow fell.
Pure and white,
it covered up every dirty secret.
It hid all sin from our sight.
it made us believe again.
In what?
What happens when it melts again,
as it surely will,
as it has since the Wampanoag
and every tribe lost its place,
as it has on every plantation
where enslaved persons
plotted to run away,
as it does now with every bonus paid to an ICE agent
subduing a person of color and hiding them away.
It snowed last night.
It is freezing and cold today.
Snow did not create an emergency.
We did.
And, we keep trying to cover it up.
It snowed last night.
annarino writes 
DECONSTRUCTION
The streets were lined for blocks on end.
Signs reminded all who rejoiced to attend
Why they walked and talked and smiled and waved
At passing cars who braved delays
While drivers honked horns and shouted out
“Vote him out and make it a rout!”
Costumed critters danced to our delight
Knowing their freedom would give him a fright.
Deconstruct the lies we have been told.
Deconstruct the narrative being sold.
Deconstruct the bullie’s hold.
Deconstruct institutional mold.
Gather in peace the young and the old.
Stronger are you, more wise, more bold.
Deconstruct so we can rebuild
What he has destroyed with his minions’ lack of skill.
We know how to do this, and more.
We have done it many times before.
My thanks to my friends in Clintonville area of Columbus who helped me attend this moment of patriots’ challenge to the con men robbing the USA of its power, wealth, ideals and humanity. The lack of media coverage was appalling. The misrepresentation of attendance numbers cannot be challenged when media fails to provide images of the gatherings. A local station covered it AFTER it was over and crowds had dispersed. Another stated hundreds attended when it was actually thousands. We are here. We are resisting. We are going nowhere until the despotism and kidnapping of people and the Supreme Court, universities, news organizations, social media outlets, medical and public health Institutions… even our very language and the meaning of words and phrases has been brought to an end and freedom restored.
We shall not be silenced.
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