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Ugh. I should have trusted my first impressions. I thought maybe I’d unfairly judged her, based on other poems I’ve read. But I reckon I was right in my assessment all along.

Her poetry sucks. NOT a fan.

How she was selected as Poet Laureate is beyond me. Uffda.

“Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning— We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.”

What were they thinking with all those guns and those/
handcuffs/
In a size for babies?/
They just don’t choose to remember./
We’re here.