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Voting as Fire Extinguisher
by Kyle Tran Myhre
When the haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.
It’s tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember:
there are children inside.
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“Voting as Fire Extinguisher,” Kyle Tran Myhre
When the haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.
It’s tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember:
there are children inside.
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"It’s tempting to just let it burn. // And then I remember: / there are children inside."
Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!
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Here’s what I know: that sometimes we have to be forward in order to keep it moving forward. Whether we are one voice, a handful, or a million—if we do not speak with conviction, honesty, and oftentimes through vulnerability, we might not progress.
A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry (Button Poetry) by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre
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In “poems I wish I had written,” this incredible and monstrous entry by Kyle Tran Myhre.
Go vote! Make the fascists bleed (metaphorically) for every inch. Show ‘em who you are, babies.
And read the poem!
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Voting as Fire Extinguisher - Kyle Tran Myhre
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Voting as Fire Extinguisher
When the haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.
It’s tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember:
there are children inside.
-Kyle Tran Myhre
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21st Century Poems I Think Everyone Should Hear at Least Once in Their Lives:
1. Ode to the Women on Long Island by Olivia Gatwood
2. The Heart and the Fist by Rudy Francisco
3. Lunch by Sienna Meadow Burnett
4. Dear God of Hiccups by Rebeca Mae
5. La Llorona by Ashia Ajani
6. The Little I’ve Learned by Saidu Tejan-Thomas
7. A Queer Girl’s Ode to the Piragüero by Denice Frohman
8. Consent at 10,000 Feet by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre
9. How to Fold a Memory by Sabrina Benaim
10. Ode to the Unpraised Deity by Liv McKee
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"And then I remember:
there are children inside."
Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!
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We might not know what the sum of our voices and our actions will be, but we will be fucked if we ever stop being forward, moving forward.
A Love Song, A Death Rattle, A Battle Cry (Button Poetry) by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre
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― Voting as Fire Extinguisher, Kyle Tran Myhre
Hockey Poetry Post 48/?
(Photo credit: Dave Sandford, Chase Agnello-Dean, link, Chris Sweda, Debora Robinson, Bill Smith, Jeff Haynes, Chase Agnello-Dean, Jeff Vinnick, link)
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