the commies are coming, the commies are coming!!!i

don't want to stand in bread lines!

that's what i knew, or thought i knew about the soviet union

oh, also that they played good hockey

also guess what? Canadians are standing in bread lines

in case you hadn't noticed

when i was just a girl

that's what i learned in school and on the tv

my parents were indifferent

they liked bowling and poker and whiskey

and now as a mom of three beautiful kids

afraid of a nuclear attack, again,

i think to myself

what a bunch of fucktards

we have allowed to run this world

and smash the patriarchy

smash it all to hell

the first poem i ever remember writing

was about the imminent risk of nuclear war

i was 16

we averted it that time, it was the cold war

this, THIS is a hot war

do everything you can, wherever you are

to stop weapons sales.

 Ella sleeping soundly

snoring

she's never not by my side

I feel a sneeze coming on

She hates it when i sneeze

I sneeze

She bolts up and stares at me

And i think she wonders if i'm dying

I assure her that i'm not dying

and that she can go back to sleep

Then i realize i'm talking to a dog

...at 6am.