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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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  • Healing Arts Chapbook No.6
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio