Second Coming No. 141 — June 9, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his regime
Henry A. Childers
Strategy Session
they sat around the table
as though it was a fire
hunched in close with coffee cups
on the otherwise empty patio
all of you know what is happening, he said
the question is: what do we do?
do we run? do we fight? do we wait?
back when we were young, one said
it was go to Canada or go to ‘Nam
we’re not there yet but it could come
another one said let’s hit the streets
we’ll do it like we did back then
and we keep it up until we win
the last one said that’s what they want
for us to run or fight
but I say stay, keep out of the way
and let them own what they have wrought
Henry A. Childers‘ poems have appeared in Sandcutters, the annual review of the Arizona State Poetry Society. He has returned to writing poetry after a professional career in technology and a creative career as a singer-songwriter.
Indolent Books and editor Michael Broder are back with another poem-a-day series as a creative response to the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House. The plan is to continue for all 1460 days of the 47th American presidency.
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