Nancy Pelosi tore up Trump's Speech
By Beau Beausoleil
She tore up
his speech
on behalf
of
every woman
man and
child
who has died
from gun violence
for every American
who lay down
in a drug
that gave them
a fatal way
out of their
nightmares /
out of their
country's collective pain
She tore up
his empty words
and self-promoting
percentages
for every parent
heading out
to their second job
the one whose pay
feeds and clothes
their children
She tore up
his image of
a WALL that
refuses entry
A WALL that mocks
the Statue of Liberty
which has welcomed those
"yearning to breathe free"
for more than
a hundred years
She tore up
his self congratulatory
pronouncements
on behalf
of everyone
abandoned
marginalized
and left behind
by racism
or by a judgment
on how one
might live and whom
one might love
She tore up
his speech
on behalf
of those
who have found
themselves
an "acceptable underclass"
by the rich
She tore up
his speech of lies
because women
are still fighting
to make their
own personal decisions
concerning when
and if to have
children
She tore up
his speech
for those
at jobs
without meaning
for those
in line
at the
food bank
for those children
whose main meal
is a free
school lunch
She tore
up his speech
for those
underpaid
without health care
for those
whose unrecognized
hard work
has forced them
to go on strike
She tore up
his speech
for those
trying to
bring their
tired bodies
upright
She tore
up the President's words
because they were selfish
and hollow
and didn't mean anything
to anyone crushed by
his "American Dream"
Her simple act of tearing up
his speech
made me feel whole again
Beau Beausoleil is based in San Francisco, California. He is the founder of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Project, a book arts response to the car-boming of Al-Mutanabbi Street (the street of the booksellers) in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007. His most recent book is, A Glyphic House: New And Selected Poems 1976-2019 (Blue Light Press) Project Link -
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