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What a day! I got up and got assaulted by the news. You’re a grown up, you go read the news yourself and you’ll be outraged too. I had told mom I had a book in at the bookstore and we’d hop over and pick it up, so we did that. Except I also left with two poetry books and a tiny art book too. <\/p>\n

Then of course we lunched. I came home and fiddled around briefly putting up a different kind of bird feeder. Had some dinner. Listened to some smarter people about the state of things. Listened to Cory Booker filibustering the Senate. <\/p>\n

Wondered what kind of poem I could possibly write today. Looked out the window to see:<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a><\/p>\n

I wrote out a lot of haiku but I’ll send you the last few:<\/p>\n

I used a phone call
\nto my US senator
\nspewing my anger<\/p>\n

then stepping outside
\nthe trees were full of spring birds
\nunder a blue sky<\/p>\n

don’t know the future
\nonly know that I have to
\ndo the right thing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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