Monday 4 November 2024

4th 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


Sunday 3 November 2024

3rd 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


Saturday 2 November 2024

2nd November 2024



ragged decorations

on a neighbour's lawn

barking dog


© Rachel Green November 2024


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© Rachel Green November 2024

 

Friday 1 November 2024

1st 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


Thursday 31 October 2024

31st October 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


Wednesday 30 October 2024

30th October 2024

 



fireworks

on a Tuesday in October

shaking dogs


© Rachel Green October 2024


Where were you

on November the fifth?

Did you vote for internment camps

to "deport" all those non-white Americans?

And did you realise that "internment"

was the new name for "concentration"

and that "deportation" meant "extermination?"

Did you campaign against migrant workers

and then complain that no-one would do those jobs

that paid below-minimum wage?

Were your hotel sheets dirty?

Your crops unpicked?

Your walls unplastered?

Your houses not built?

Did you complain about the prices going up

because of the new tax on imports?

Did you vote for mass deportation

and not expect your parents to be taken

by white me in guns and masks

and red-white-and-blue swastikas?

Where were you

on November the fifth?


© Rachel Green October 2024


Tuesday 29 October 2024

29th October 2024

 



heavy cloud

hoping the sun will break through

holiday kids


© Rachel Green October 2024


a chat show host laughs

as Eddie Redmayne explains how

he was shown to use a mobile phone for self-defence.

Another male guest makes fun of the tactic

and four men are laughing at the idea.

"Who thinks about using their phone when threatened?"

asks entitled white man, Paul Mescal, and laughs.

Saoirse Ronan, overshadowed, talked over,

waits for a space to speak, and says

"Women have to think about that all the time."

Silence.


Saoirse Ronan


© Rachel Green October 2024