My kid's english teacher has each student memorize & recite 100 lines of poetry (of their choice). In searching for poems my kid connects to & meet the moment, we landed on this morning's installment: Margaret Atwood's "Song of the Worms." Worth a read: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

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Here's one of her earlier choices, "The Conditional" by Ada Limon. (have I mentioned how much I love this assignment?) poets.org/poem/conditi...

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Right. But it’s not the speaker we should worry about, it’s the clerk. The clerk is tasked with seating people and if Mike replaces Kevin McCumber with a stooge, there will be fuckery.

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There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.

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