Rebellion gets shaky as its troops grow weary
In a world just begging to be reasonable
useless bumper stickers plead:
stop poisoning our water
stop erasing our sky
stop pumping out your lies to justify your
sandbox greed
while stealing the right to torture our reactions
I sit in my therapist's office
9:30 on a cold Wednesday morning
trying to figure out how to take myself
more seriously,
keep my heart from eating my spine alive,
and resist the repeated suggestions
that taking meds would make it all OK.
Samantha Barrow is a poet, performer, activist and educator. Her Web site address is www.samanthabarrow.com.
"Rebellion gets shaky as its troops grow weary" appeared in the Inquirer on Monday, December 26, 2005.