tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150841143292433834.post461345652926171890..comments2023-05-14T14:54:44.200+01:00Comments on Air Nice-to-Livelands: "Oh, Missing Pair of Jeans"Andrew-L'autrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09683044614329189495noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150841143292433834.post-64686190227814221442013-02-03T23:33:45.723+00:002013-02-03T23:33:45.723+00:00Thanks, Jessica. :)
I'll reply about the poem...Thanks, Jessica. :)<br /><br />I'll reply about the poem in an e-mail later. :)Andrew-L'autrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683044614329189495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3150841143292433834.post-13395440198309229612013-02-03T14:56:36.988+00:002013-02-03T14:56:36.988+00:00I love it! It reminds me of a poem I wrote four ye...I love it! It reminds me of a poem I wrote four years ago about a flannel shirt.<br /><br />I had to write a poem in response to "Power" by Audre Lourde. Let me know what you think:<br /><br />Response to Audre Lourde’s Power<br /><br />The gun naysayers say,<br />as you lift and cock the gun<br />to blow that motherfucker away:<br />poetry and rhetoric are not one,<br />rhetoric kills, the people on Capitol Hill;<br />could care less about your freedom,<br />or so the protesters say while they kill,<br />forgetting the losses of life, see them,<br />a no win situation, loss after loss,<br />but you said it yourself, miss Lourde,<br />it’s not the poetry, but the rhetoric’s boss,<br />that with “normal” civilians the chord<br />is struck, while criminals on the streets<br />grab gun after gun to prove a point—<br />it’s not the guns that kill,<br />but the fighting and disjoint <br />wanting to ban the 2nd bill;<br />but in the rhetoric we are lost,<br />and at what cost?<br />Musings of a Creative Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10765023786410264588noreply@blogger.com