I Build Women Up

Here are the children
who cry for their mothers
locked up by a man
endorsed by the woman
who wanders the house
that Trump built

Here's the machinist
who needs three jobs
to feed her child
employed by the woman
who wanders the house
that Trump built

Here lies the activist
who lost her life
resisting the racist
supremicist vice
dismissed by the man
and shrugged off by the daughter
that complicit woman
who wanders the house
that Trump built

© S.O. Fasrus

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S.O. Fasrus is a Social Justice Campaigner & Social Research Interviewer. Her verse and poems; some comic; satirical; and serious; can be found online. Recent poems are in New Verse News, Culture Matters, and Poems for Grenfell Tower.

Rat-King Tales

Because the Rat-King
is first and foremost
a Rat, he chews through
walls. Frail brick
between church and
state, sagging particle
board between office
and profit – When I smell
a beautiful cheese I just
chew, says Rat. I don’t
even wait. It’s like a
magnet. – He adjusts his
tiny gold crown with his
tiny paws. -- Is it any
wonder my followers
love me? Look at
all the holes I’ve made
for them to crawl through.

© Alina Macneal

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Alina Macneal lives in Philadelphia. Her poems have appeared in Apiary Magazine, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and other anthologies.