Tag Archives: United States

God weeps

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

flags are half-staff at the capitol & everywhere red stripes tell blood; today not of revolutionaries but children, ours, because they are all our children, just learning letters & numbers, sight words, how to run & today how to die all we had to learn was how to … Continue reading →

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the american weigh

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it’s another form of yankee isolationism how we carry our cups, ounces, gallons, pounds, feet inches, degrees Fahrenheit, miles so deeply in our DNA we teach children complex conversions to that other system so they can talk scale with the rest of the world … Continue reading →

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in our place

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I guess we feminist woman-loving/man-hating child devouring witches of women (which I have been told I am, just for having a voice and a mind, and not hiding either) no longer know our place and we need to be schooled on who … Continue reading →

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77 cents

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I want those 23 cents per dollar that some man made more than me for that precise thinking, for that same lifting, for my exact educational level and similar scrubbing–money lost for every second of my life worked I want … Continue reading →

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the beautiful?

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

American, say it with a swagger & with confidence; like we own the name somehow more than the Canadians & Mexicans, & all those other Americans south of Panama but say it with force & the assurance that all those other Americas … Continue reading →

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