My poem, ‘Scarecrow Votes,” is up at Vox Populi, alongside Jenne Andrews’ call for revolution. Trump’s horrific separation of families policy must end! Thank you to Michael Simms for responding and publishing the poem so quickly.
O at the Edges
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O at the Edges 
Sadly on the mark, Bob.
As I said there…
Scarecrow knows there is no justification. Why don’t we?
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How could anyone condone this?
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Exactly.
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The complete lack of empathy is frightening.
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Sadly, uncle sam has never been one for empathy.
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So true.
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“My voice, swelling through the wind-blown grain, expands across the plains, casts my vote with every gust…”
May Scarecrow’s psychic gusts be our tulpa to effect the just end for that stomach-turning aberration squatting in the White House, that every rational and humane one of us has been envisioning…
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I fear that nothing will change the minds of the people who support this squatter.
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Yet we must continue to speak out against him, especially for those who have no voice. Just as you are doing. Thank you.
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We must! Silence is complicity.
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Congratulations!
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Thank you, John.
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Bravo – as usual, Scarecrow says what needs to be said (and said, and said!)
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Thanks, Jazz. Let’s hope that someone is listening.
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aw man, pardon my french, but shit just got real starting with: “But can a young bird/ stolen from its mother thrive?”
the following lines get stronger and stronger, with the last one being powerful.
Thanks for this, and thanks for reminding us to be vigilant and brave in a time most brutal.
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Thank you, SS! This is not over – we must keep watching. We must speak out.
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Really loved this Robert; a brilliant sad reminder of the terrible things that go on in our world
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Thanks very much. I wish it were otherwise.
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Me too, it’s just awful :O(
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There is no humanity, so much easier to just blame some “other.” How many times have we watched this play out in history? And yet it’s still the same completely predictable, slo-mo crash. We haven’t learned, or haven’t bothered to learn.
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The rhetoric, not to mention the actions taken, frightens me. Our system of checks and balances has done little thus far.
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Sensational use of language and so heartbreaking. Happy the forced separations will end but also know the damage can’t be undone. We need poems like this to shine a light in dark times.
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Thanks very much. I suppose only time will tell if the forced separations will actually end.
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Indeed. Hopefully things will be different after the midterms.
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