Soraya Shalforoosh
Haiku Sequence
“Anger can be power”
The Clash has helped
Election Day results, fuck
No justice tonight
“I Fought the Law”
I thought was Clash song
Originally written
by Sonny Curtis
“Anger can be power”
Keeps me from Crying
We will stay angry and fight
Anger is power
“In these days of evil presidentes”
Yes these are the days
We elected Evil Joe
We need Combat Rock
“Kick over the wall ’cause government’s to fall / How can you refuse it?”
Wants to build a wall
New evil President said
“Kick it over” Joe
Rage Against the Machine
Reforming to Rage
Trumps electoral college
Red state rage of dumb
“Anger is an Energy”
Johnny famously
Preached against apartheid
John Rawls theory, sung
Omarosa said “Every Critic, Every Detractor, Will Have To Bow Down To Prez Trump”
Trent Reznor sang it
“I’d rather die than give
you control” fuck Trump
“No you can’t take that away from me”
Black is his soul, God
money grabs pussy, terror
Can’t kill our souls
“No you can’t take that away from me”
Mouth, giant O hole
He will get what he deserves
One day he will serve?
Punk, you saved me
From Suburban Existence
Now Fucking Trump, OI!
Donald Dump
Cut the NEA?
No art? Yoko Ono SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In your ear, all night
Soraya Shalforoosh is the author of This Version of Earth (Barrow Street, 2014). She has been a featured poet in the Journal of the Academy of American Poets Emerging Poet Series, and has had poems and reviews in Black Earth Institute, Apogee Journal, Taos Journal, Barrow Street, Lumina Journal, Skanky Possum, and Marlboro Review, among others. She hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and as an undergraduate at Clark University won the Prentiss Cheney Hoyt Poetry award. She has been a guest poet at William Paterson University in New Jersey, Berkeley College in New York, San Jose State University and a guest speaker at the American Embassy in Algeria.
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