Tuesday, October 14, 2025

MOOD: This poem I read a long time ago could be older than those ICE agents.

"Chicago: Ice harassing 2 15 year olds without a parent"

https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1o4aioa/chicago_ice_harassing_2_15_year_olds_without_a/

Son, ya got to uphold the traditions.

"Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl From Car, Slam Her To The Ground She Screams 'I'm 15!' as Man Kneels on Her Neck"

https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s/SXvuvroxt9

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"Sonnet While Killing a Chicken    

The most important thing a girl can learn

is how to kill a chicken for a meal

to please a man, so she begins to turn

the bird by neck and bound feet—this skill real,

precise, my mother wringing damp bath towels

and snapping them on our rumps like the neck

snaps in the hand, wings sputtering, bowels

release shit. The bird, its broken neck thick

with draining blood, is lowered to a tub

and bathed in scalding water. Feathers pulled

like flowers from roots. Feet sliced off. Wings nubbed

like a girl's new-formed breasts. Tender meat culled.

The chicken flat on its dead back. The knife

just above its neck. The girl. The first slice."

~ Amanda Pritchard Moore, Poetry: Issue 14 - The Cortland Review

https://archive.cortlandreview.org/issue/14/moore14.htm

Ya got to be a provider...

"Scenes from Cornell’s Performative Male Contest'

https://www.collegetownmagazine.com/articles/scenes-from-cornells-performative-male-contest

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