J.R. Johnson

I’m waiting 
to remember 

that there is more to today than a headline
that the lump in my throat is not forever
that my fellow Americans are still that
and when they (we) lose their health care and disasters go unrelieved and preventable disease is not prevented and wells are poisoned and two plus two no longer equals four
I will not rejoice

because 

today is more than a headline, and
the lump in my throat is concentrated fuel, and 
my fellow Americans are just that, and
we will still fight for health care and disaster relief and disease prevention and clean soil air water and reality in all its forms, and

this timeline is the only one we have, so 

I’m waiting.

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