Rolling Stone magazine put the face of the Boston Marathon bomber on its cover this month. The tension is high, the heated discourse is still underway, and of course fire burns hottest at the center so here in Boston it's a divisive issue. On one side of the divide, outrage. On the other side, here comes the splainy-face, finger-wagging crowd that likes to pretend intellectual superiority. These are "don't be a crybaby" naysay…
That monster saw a black
boy walking in his neighborhood, followed, taunted, confronted and shot that boy for no goddamn reason. George Zimmerman should be in jail.
My heart, my soul, my mind all ache for Trayvon, his friends, his family and everyone in
America whose expectations were dashed last weekend. George Zimmerman is a predator who hunted and killed a boy just because he thought he could get away with it, and now the law has shocked …
A Handpicked Poem article by Michael Todd Steffen
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A Handpicked Poem article by Michael Todd Steffen From Plume, November
2024, issue 159 (note the author’s finish date for the poem, September
2024) F O R T...
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