A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House
Susan Barry-Schulz
Defending Extremism and the Federal Government
An erasure from the administration’s executive order “Defending Women
from Gender Ideology and Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the
Federal Government’, issued January 20, 2025.
It is hereby ordered: across the country
deny the reality of women
eradicate reality
as women
for women
from women
to women
erasure
of truth
relacing the
internal, fluid and subjective sense of self
cherished freedom
Accordingly enforce
Sex shall refer
Woman shall mean
Men shall mean
Female means
Male means
There is a vast spectrum that cannot be recognized
enforce
remove
require
report
cease
take all necessary steps
to end.
Susan Barry-Schulz‘s poems have appeared in West Trestle Review, The Westchester Review, SoFLoPoJO, SWWIM, Does It Have Pockets, and other journals and anthologiees. She is a first generation Estonian-American poet and artist who grew up just outside of Buffalo, NY.
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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