{"id":1929,"date":"2019-10-25T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2019-11-01T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T00:15:38","slug":"breaking-news-impeachment-without-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/10\/25\/breaking-news-impeachment-without-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS! | Impeachment without Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Jane Rosenberg LaForge <\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Where\u2019s my role model,
I could scream to the hills.

Same place Roy Cohn is, no doubt.
My mother said we were all destined\u00a0

For the same weigh station, perhaps
The one my father regretted not buying.\u00a0

Look at Leonard Garment, her first
Nomination. Never heard of him?\u00a0

I rest my case. My mother, post-diagnosis;
My father so stabbed and ravaged by an era\u2019s\u00a0

revolutions he had to wrap himself
In bloodied sheets and bandages,\u00a0

A poor second skin to meet the world
as words and institutions were being\u00a0

pilloried all around him. He also
had to be wondering if he would be\u00a0

among the five percent Who get to keep
their hair. My mother said She\u2019d divorce him\u00a0

if he ever got a motorcycle. He was always so
Naked, while my mother was ever in uniform:\u00a0

Khaki, denim, sweatshirts. Such was the highlight
Of their union, for one purpose, to absorb this
\u00a0
smiting of enemies, though at a careful distance.
Yet night after night after night. Days were\u00a0

Shorter then, as was the need for vengeance.\u00a0
Sinners think heaven is administered\u00a0

By their victims: Names they\u2019ve expelled
Temporarily into dustbins; or on to the covers\u00a0

Of books with titles that now go unmentioned.
Don\u2019t look up that reference because you just\u00a0

Might find yourself liking the wrong kind
Of system. I can\u2019t stand the suspense,
\u00a0
The finely-wrought indecision. I can\u2019t stand
Not knowing whether there is a god and who\u2019s\u00a0

Working with Him: the United Nations,
the National Register Of Historic Places, maybe\u00a0

the Farm Bureau And Henry Wallace, seated right
up there with Saint Peter And other diminished vice presidents.\u00a0

Let\u2019s have a roll call of all the people needed now
like stewardesses and pilots on a bad LSD trip,\u00a0

Though it would be an elitist exercise, wouldn\u2019t it,
Since We all have different precedents. Mine are\u00a0

Embedded in the religion of my parents, a clear
And diligent clarifying of the fat with a handful\u00a0

Of scruff off the back of a model, four good legs
And horns in progress. Can\u2019t you guess? It\u2019s in Exodus.\u00a0<\/p>

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Jane Rosenberg LaForge <\/em><\/strong>is a poet, author, and memoirist from New York. Her novel, ‘The Hawkman” (Amberjack Publishing) was a finalist in the 2019 Eric Hoffer awards. She has had work published or forthcoming in The Comstock Review, I 70 Review, Tiferet, and SHANTIH. <\/em>Her inspiration<\/em><\/strong> for this piece ” The ongoing impeaching inquiry, and that my parents aren’t around to see it.”<\/em><\/p>

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Where\u2019s my role model,
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