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January 2024

White Bread Society

there’s all sorts of people living all around us different but the same in so many ways and we can’t understand everything they go through unless we talk which has to go both ways and we have to listen to the joys and struggles of who they are and what they need and how afraid they are right now of losing what they inherently have as the life they’ve chosen and how they live in and amongst people that don’t understand that differences have always been here though stifled by prejudice and hate fueled by tradition or religion or ignorance or all this wrapped up in a flag we were once proud of but now makes us wince when we see it knowing that it doesn’t mean what many people think it means anymore because it’s not about freedom to live how we see fit for ourselves but to follow some outdated code of patriotism that cuts the crust off the white bread of our society and discards any piece of us that doesn’t conform which is why many of us will escape to more diverse lands and leave half of us to fight for those that don’t have a voice or a way to protect themselves and their way of being in a country that has sadly devolved with sharp but ignorant minds leading masses of misinformed and misguided souls headed in the direction of smallness and deconstruction of We the People tasked to come together and build a country based on the premise that They the People must conform to a norm that is no longer relevant to most of the country and will eventually hurt the We as much as the They while the leaders expand their wealth and control over the decreasing voice of We/They the People
 
deep breath
 
Pops 2024

We the People

Here we are again
Same shit from yesteryear
This time we knew better
This time we had more reasons
Not to fail –
But we did
 
We the people
Chose a felon
Voted for a rapist
Checked the box
For a liar
It’s who we collectively are
 
America - do better Flag
We the People - be better
 
It’s not the party
It’s the man
unfit to lead
An unhinged elitist
Not a genius
Just a wrecking ball
 
We the People
Chose retribution
Picked chaos
Embraced hate
Composed fear
We call it strength
 
America – do better
We the People – be better
 
Because here we are again
Torn apart by false rhetoric
With some very good people
On both sides
I know them well
Yet the divide gets deeper
 
We the People
Need to remember
To love our neighbor
Regardless of color
Red or blue
No more walls
 
America – do better
We the People – Be Better
 
At listening to neighbors
Turning off the noise
Tuning in to conversation
Bridging the divide
Once and for all
 
We the People
Come together
Understand the other
Not as enemies
Working together
While we still can
 
America – do better
We the People – be better
 
We have four more years
to practice peace
 
Pops 2024