{"id":327,"date":"2019-10-27T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=327"},"modified":"2019-12-18T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:39:08","slug":"me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/10\/27\/me\/","title":{"rendered":"you should have asked #MEtoo | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Hokis, Senior Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n\r\n

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Preface:\u00a0 Note From Hers\u2019 Warrior<\/strong>
I wish they would had named\u00a0
the \u201cvictims\u201d Warriors, and given them
the mic to birtHers own movement.
It would have alte(a)red reality as we know it.<\/p>\r\n

After all, only the tribal women
Are trusted to choose the mighty elephant
Over the cowardice poacher\u2019s bribe.<\/p>\r\n

Chapter 1:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Nixon is the decade\u2019s distraction.
The abstraction of the world\u2019s ailings, dosed down to\u00a0
the TVeaspoon we can swallow and still keep down.
Gets us just angry enough, but not angry enough.
It happens in that little box we can turn off.
In that other neighborhood.
In that other house.
In that other person.<\/p>\r\n

Nixon distracted people.
Nixon killed my cat.
Nixon raped me.<\/p>\r\n

The End<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Trump\u2019s House.
Where tricks are turned for dicks and
souls for phallacies
#Metoo
24-hour news
Pocket sized TVeaspoons
\u201cLikes\u201d and \u201cFriends\u201d

Trump the decade\u2019s distraction.
The resulting cognitive dissonance\u00a0
silences alter boys\u00a0
and children in cages.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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inspiration: <\/em><\/strong>Sometime in the past year I saw a special about the \u2018Akashinga\u2019, pictured above. When the Epstein story broke, the lack of shock inside my survivor soul had some story to do weaving.\u00a0 <\/em>Please read this article about the Akashinga, which also serves as this poem’s image source.<\/a><\/em><\/h5>\r\n
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Previous publication note: The complete poem “Brown Room in the White House” was published in <\/em>Caustic Frolic: Liminal Spaces,<\/em><\/a>\u201d Spring 2019, in “<\/em>Truly U: Chapter 1<\/em><\/a>,\u201d Summer, 2019, and in Headline Poetry & Press fall 2019.\u00a0<\/em> It was published in parts by Paragon Press in their Summer 2019 Conversation Issue:\u00a0 “Snollygoster: A Conversation in Politics.<\/h5>\r\n
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by Hokis, senior editor – origninally published Sept 14, 2019<\/p>\n

Preface:\u00a0 Note From Hers\u2019 Warrior
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