Category Archives: politics

J is for June and July

Posted on April 11, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

My birthday is the first day of June, the first day of what you might as well call summer, so what if it’s technically late spring, school is out or almost out, everything is green, you can wear shorts and … Continue reading →

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FGH Pandemic

Posted on April 9, 2020 by aliceinbloggingland

F is for Fuck it G is for God make it stop H is for when the Hell will this be over? Early in the shelter at home phase I had two homes and was busily packing up one and … Continue reading →

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Halloween

Posted on April 23, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

I wore a sheet wrapped around my fluffy baby blue parka the rain stuck the sheet to the parka and I was a wet ghost My hood up, white fur around my face mittens holding out a pillowcase remembering the … Continue reading →

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The deal

Posted on April 13, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

I don’t like the world Where I drive by Road kill And do nothing But avoid spreading it further. I do not stop and create A ceremony. I do my best to ignore It forget it. I don’t like this … Continue reading →

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Salem

Posted on April 12, 2013 by aliceinbloggingland

My ancestor Sarah Cloyce Crouched in her jail cell Remembering her sisters. Rebecca. Hung. Mary. Drowned. She herself faced drowning And wondered how it was when Mary’s lungs filled with water The air squeezed out Bubbles rising to the surface. … Continue reading →

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Absentee

Posted on July 10, 2012 by aliceinbloggingland

A month before she died, my mother signed her absentee ballot firmly, though she could no longer see very well.  The ten letters of her name spilled in a zigzag down the margin of the brown ballot, careening off the … Continue reading →

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