At any moment,
we can join the ranks of the
disabled. Fight now.
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Poetry by Wade Kwon
haiku for 3/18/2024
At any moment,
we can join the ranks of the
disabled. Fight now.
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haiku for 12/10/2023
I can ignore things
in the news and retreat to
my secret safe space.
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haiku for 8/30/2023
Let men run the world,
they said. What could possibly
go awry, they said.
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haiku for 7/27/2023
A police training
site that the people don’t want
in their wooded lot.
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haiku for 6/28/2023
They jabbed in comment
sections and heaped insults on
those they found too “woke.”
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haiku for 6/23/2023
Five justices quashed
women’s reproductive rights
in a single vote.
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haiku for 1/16/2023
Yell from the streets, march
to and fro, let everyone
know why we’re angry.
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haiku for 12/17/2022
If it’s not happy
happy, if it spotlights a
cause, it’s banned all right.
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haiku for 11/20/2022
New patterns based on
old ones that oppress, detain
and discriminate.
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haiku for 7/29/2022
The patriarchy
belches. So foul the stench that
we must cry out more.
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