Rise Up!
POETRY FORMAT, 3 Mar 2025
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service
The MAGA vision and strategy
Impoverish, takeover, enslave
Impoverish, takeover, enslave
The mind
The people
The state
The world
Impoverish, takeover, enslave
Impoverish, takeover, enslave
Rapidly
Thoroughly
By any and all means
Impoverish, takeover, enslave
Impoverish, takeover, enslave
Is but one
There are other, more humanizing, ways to (co)exist
But we must rise up: creatively resist, alternatively insist, and resiliently persist
For a more compassionate, equitable, and sustainable world
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Jocelyn Wright is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mokpo National University, South Korea, where she has served for over 16 years. Her main areas of academic interest are peace linguistics, peace literature, and peace language education. Email: jocelynmnu@yahoo.com
Tags: Poetry, Trump, USA
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