letting my freak flag fly

unnamedletting-my-freak-flag-fly
i was talking
with aunt bea
about
a demonstration
on
the
illegitimate presidency
of trump
how a group
of us
were headed
downtown
next week
to stand in solidarity
against
washington criminals
aunt bea
said
it’s
so easy
to resist
and
rebel
when others
walk beside you
but
the real resistance
is
when you
stand alone
either
in the voting booth
or
in your
personal decisions
to
defy
and
address
the wrongs
that stand
before
you

© Charles W. Martin

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Jamie Dedes is a Lebanese-American poet and free-lance writer. She is the founder and curator of The Poet by Day, info hub for poets and writers, and the founder of The Bardo Group, publishers of The BeZine, of which she was the founding editor and currently a co-manager editor with Michael Dickel. Ms. Dedes is the Poet Laureate of Womawords Press 2020 and U.S associate to that press as well. Her debut collection, "The Damask Garden," is due out fall 2020 from Blue Dolphin Press.

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