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Activism, Art Antics, Connection, Hope

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I’ve made 32 sock cats and one chicken.

Seven went to Off The Bottle for sale. The rest went to neighbors who couldn’t afford gifts for their children because of the ill advised choices of 47.

The Golden Whisker Society
The Golden Whisker Society

Mom is writing a backstory for the website. I’ve created adoption certificates.

I can’t fix the government. I can’t stop the atrocities being committed by this government every day.

I can make soft, squishy cats. I can make Christmas happen for a handful of children who otherwise wouldn’t get anything.

I’m doing what I can.

Activism, art, equality, poem, Poetry, Political

Hold the Door

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what tenuous freedoms did we have
that they hung on the balance
of one woman’s life?

we grew so complacent in our fight
resting in our ignorance
as she held the door.

her pertinacity kept us safe
while she held fast our freedoms
against all assaults

in the dark chasm of her absence
we stare down our oppressors
eye to hungry eye

victory curving their smacking lips
our rights over the abyss
they scent a weakness

we cannot let them tear asunder
all she fought for all those years
we must battle on.

wake your anger and drink it deeply
carry her spark into the night
keep holding the door.

mmorehead 2020