{"id":1023,"date":"2019-09-07T21:37:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2019-09-15T02:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T02:40:19","slug":"hope-corey-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/09\/07\/hope-corey-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED POET:  Corey Hill | Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Hope is the weapon The blade <br>strained the grease fat neck Loll, <br>loll, Chopped heads, Loll. This is a <br>bright-edged hope. This is a hope <br>with incisors, one chewing noisy <br>with mouth open, a hope to <br>swallow them up. Hope it isn\u2019t <br>dead, yet, this one\u2019s got a pulse, a <br>volcano gestating, a comet and a <br>fucking riot. Dangling off the <br>freeway and it matters. Hope for <br>when the fascists come out. Hope <br>when the world isn\u2019t. We aren\u2019t <br>waiting on someone. This is the <br>last minute move. We are the <br>clenched fist. The raw knuckle. <br>This ain\u2019t a shiny suit of armor, or a <br>flapping cape. This is thirsty shit, <br>sand swept and millions of arms <br>and legs. We hope but we aren\u2019t <br>waiting around, we got a flutter in <br>our ribs demanding some room to <br>stretch out and a planet for the <br>kids. Means join us. Means be on <br>this side. At the risk of sounding <br>ridiculous, MLK and Che say love <br>and yeah, love. There\u2019s love in this <br>thing, nothing but love. Love <br>means you do whatever is <br>necessary to protect.&nbsp;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>inspiration for this piece<\/strong>:  &#8220;Seeing the billionth notification in my Twitter feed for the upcoming We The People March&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong><em>Corey Hill <\/em><\/strong><em>is a human rights activist, journalist, fiction writer, parent, and occasional tree climber.  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