On the Graduate Student Bulletin Board: A Found Poem (2019)

No Wall.  No Ban.  No Fear

Black Lives Matter

“Please don’t let me die”

LGBTQ Activist

Queer Spirituality

Know Your IX

#Sayhername

No Justice No Peace

Safe Zone Ally

Trans Umbrella

#Notnormal Resist

Bodies without borders

Speak Up….

We Believe Anita & Christine.  We Believe Survivors.

“Why did you shoot me”

Stop Profiling Muslims

Resist

Being an ally is about listening

Gun violence ends now

Seize the means of production

Help Pass Issue 1

Cincinnati March For Our Lives

Free the Slaves Cincinnati

United We Stand

Moms Demand Action

LGBTQ Safe Zone

Black history is everyday

Prisons are bad for health

My favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy

My favorite gender neutral pronoun is comrade

Stand up.  Speak out.  Walk out. 

“It’s not real”

Covid Chit Chat

Cooped up forever, it’s driving me insane 

I have to get out, maybe go to a store 

A store?  What store?  And go there what for?   

Please shelter in place, stick with the campaign

But we're out of pickles and cottage cheese 

And I’ve barely one six-pack of Coke 

Coca-cola, pickles, is this a bad joke?

The store is Grand Central for killer disease   

I'll wear my new mask, it’s bulletproof protection

Stay six feet away, no kisses, no hugs

Just keep this in mind, no vaccines, no drugs 

They've no way of taming this demon infection 

Being scared of a germ isn’t my cup of tea 

Since when have you been such a sissy? 

I'll tell you a thing or two, Missy
So sad but we oldies no longer are free

Well I’m going to the store and that's that

I was thinking that maybe you'd drive me there 

O.K., holy moly, I don’t even care 

Anything to wind up this god-awful spat 

So pleased you've decided to see things my way

Already you’ve made this a non-COVID day 

(And out the door they went, hand in hand)