My Best Friend

In the long nights
When shadows scurry through my mind
When there is that clank of memory
Making me want to rant and scream
You hold me
Though you are miles away.
I sail across the oceans of my soul
Until the wind turns sour
And then you are beside me
With puffed up cheeks
Blowing until your lungs give out
And my sails billow once again.
If I sass you
You’re apt to push me from the boat
But if I sink
Eyes filled with fear, and pale
You bravely chase me into soggy depths
Where fate and karma dance like star-crossed lovers.
You battle
Tooth on tooth against my many demons
Shredding skin and thought with vicious claws
I’m safe, but thick and crimson
All that blood
Is mostly theirs - and yours

Are We That Dumb?

You wanted a woman, he said
Well, here’s one!
A slap in the face
Of all who supported Hillary
No matter that the other one stands
For all things unprogressive
That life is sacred only when
It isn’t born yet
That we are to be
One nation under one church
That our rights and strengths
Are to be squashed once again
Our children to be spent
In a holy war
Our sick and needy
Forsaken yet again
To fatten Alaskan Oil Sheiks
No matter all that
Which insults the woman in me
Still by the scores
Dumb white women
Abandon their cries of hope
And plummet to the low regions
Of Republican corruption
Sell out your families if you must
I won’t!
I’m still voting for a Democrat