I read this week’s Read Write Poem prompt in which I read about the PEN Poem Relay for Shi_Tao, a journalist imprisoned by the Chinese government. After that, I read this news article about Bush criticizing China’s human rights issues. These inspired to write this poem, although it is really not for the prompt. I will be writing something specific for it later.
This is not a skeltonic in the strictest sense, but I borrow from the form heavily for this work.
It is incendiary. You don’t have to agree. I just ask you to listen.
-Nicole
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“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
-James Baldwin
Georgie boy,
what do your words mean?
Georgie boy,
your scream is not a scream.
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