America
sliding into fascism
fireworks
© Rachel Green November 2024
Margaret Atwood predicted the future
with "A Handmaid's Tale"
as the last free election of America
votes for the separation of women
from any rights over themselves
while men hold all control
without being subject to conditions.
No need to vote ever again;
not in your lifetime, anyway.
JD Vance becomes president elect.
© Rachel Green November 2024
remember, remember
fireworks were only cool
before PTSD
© Rachel Green November 2024
my bones disinterred
after sepulchral centuries
what will they think,
these inheritors of the earth?
Here was a woman who fought for justice
amidst a society weighted against the Other,
of just some old geezer
with inexplicable scars on his psyche?
© Rachel Green November 2024
Mom! Wake up!
The fireworks have stopped
garden visit.
© Rachel Green November 2024
Republicans
want to remove the right to vote
from women
in case the vote Democrat.
And while they have the Senate,
no votes for Blacks, Gays, Latinos
or Native Americans.
Let's go further: Sharia law
but only for women
Cisgender White men will still be exempt
from anything the Bible says
concerning Adultery.
But lets stone the women.
© Rachel Green November 2024
night walk
distant fireworks
running dog
© Rachel Green November 2024
I didn't understand that we were poor;
we lived in a big house with a garden
even if the rooms were mostly bare
and the bare floors were warmed by threadbare rugs,
our clothes from jumble sales.
I wated the toys that other kids had:
board games and football cards;
doll houses and air rifles
but "money didn't grow on trees"
and if I whined too much Dad told me
"put a sock in it," or "Go clean a chimney."
© Rachel Green November 2024
ragged decorations
on a neighbour's lawn
barking dog
© Rachel Green November 2024
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© Rachel Green November 2024
All Saints day
but church is no longer mandatory
thank God
© Rachel Green November 2024
celebrating a birthday with my long-dead twin
and her childhood friends who were guilty of sin
and beaten to death by the people next door-
nobody speaks to the father no more.
The police couldn't prove he had murdered his kin
despite the court order, search warrant within
for he'd chopped up the bodies and fed them to swine
(except for their teeth, which he'd tossed in the Tyne)
then sold at the market to make into patties
for burgers to feed the fast-food loving masses.
I knew they were dead but then who could I tell
with no sign of their bodies. Book, candle and bell
would assign them a place in the Heaven to come
when the world burn in Hellfire and the Angels were done.
© Rachel Green November 2024
Halloween
but training takes precedence
no candy here
© Rachel Green October 2024
Mum always said I was an angel
but she didn't know my imaginary friend
was a literal one, and nor did I
until much later in life.
She looked like a normal girl
unless you saw her in a mirror.
I never looked in mirrors.
© Rachel Green October 2024
