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First 100 Days

by Pamela Ahlen
The newbies serve up baloney,
say we’ve been lied to     misinformed
say we’re not fucking over the air water earth 
say we’re not drowning in our own shit.
The emissaries of fracking brotherhood
want to overturn the rules    bung up the amber waves,
say what will make us great again is
a great infarction from sea to shining.
So who will police the mess?
I say we need powerful guard dog protectors--
mongrel Wops and Button-Heads,
Beaners, Coons, Frogs and Chinks, Camel Jockeys, Pollacks,
my Bohunk Grandmother.
I say there are no good reasons for keeping our collective mouths shut.  

Pamela Ahlen is a retired music educator from South Florida.  She and her husband relocated to Vermont in order to enjoy rural life and experience the outdoors in all its seasons.  Pam is program coordinator for Bookstock (Woodstock, Vermont), a Green Mountain Literary Festival.  She organizes literary readings for Osher (Lifelong Education at Dartmouth) and has recently compiled an Osher Anthology of Poets and Writers.  Pam received an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of the chapbook Gather Every Little Thing (Finishing Line Press). Her work was recently showcased in Blue Heron.
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  • Folio No.8 Fall 2022 Love Letters
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • Online Issue No.1 Fall 2016
    • Online Issue No.2 Spring 2017
    • ONLINE Issue No.3 Fall 2017
    • PRINT Vol 72 No 2 Fall 2017
    • PRINT Vol 73 No.1 Fall 2018
    • ONLINE Issue No. 4 Fall 2018
    • Online Issue No.5 Summer 2018
    • FOLIO No.1 Fall 2018 VOTE
    • ONLINE Issue No.6 Fall 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • FOLIO 2 Fall 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • ONLINE Issue No.7 Spring 2019 >
      • Issue Intro
    • FOLIO No.3 -- Moon Moon Spring 2019
    • FOLIO No.4 Celebrating New PCC Writers
    • FOLIO No.5 City of Redemption
    • FOLIO No.6 Spring 2020
    • FOLIO No. 7 - Winter 2021 Into the Forest
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board