“Would you come into my Parler?” said The Spider to The Fly.
“There’s news for real Americans — the MAGA girls and guys!
The way into my Parler is up a winding stair.
If you have a brain or conscience, just leave them out there.”
“Oh yes, yes,” said the little Fly, “a place to bash and blame
those party-pooping liberals who fact-check all my claims!”
Oil on canvas.
I’m honored to share here that Spillwords Press published another poem of mine today — “As Silver as the Stars You Tried to Rival.” You can find it right here.
Thanks once again to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to share my voice through this outstanding online literary magazine!
Marvel Comics.
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague
Crayon.
By Øyvind Holmstad – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68537968
Photo credit: Steve Hopson, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
“Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn’t know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen.
“Use the words of the movement to pace yourself. We used to say that ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world.”
― United States Representative John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
Oil.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 