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.
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.
