Good morning, good day, and goodbye! Here is the last offering of our 11 dedicated poets on this our 30th day of "30 Poems in 30 Days" in support of the family in residence at the First Congregational Church's sanctuary, supported by the Ithaca Sanctuary Alliance. We have offered these poems with love and much hope for a better future in which we finally defeat white supremacy, outrageous levels of wealth inequality, war, and the inhumanity that fuels all of the above. As Jews say, "Shanah Tovah v'Tikatavu" (May you have) a happy and sweet new year! If you have not already donated to this fundraiser, and have the extra income to do so, please check out our GOFUNDME site at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/30-poems-in-30-days-for-ithaca-sanctuary-alliance
DAY 30 On turning Off the Debate SUSAN ESCHBACH spewing lies vitriol, denigration shameless disregard indecent while wielding, or hoping to wield boundless power somehow in his rotted morality a mirror, some toxic tenacious treatise on the human condition in the spaces virus grows in festering hate a reflection of a people who want….what? a law? a right? a write –off?—ok sure but under this, a fevered decay. And I am ever stunned, enraged, paralyzed and I write , shout, vote wondering if this is mere salve that cannot affect healing wondering, what the hell happened? Sometimes, Silliness is the Only Response BARBARA REGENSPAN I, with my lifelong faith in education, couldn’t watch either, Susan. There were cracks all along, when I’m honest— the fraternity boys who complained to the dean when I named governmental response to Katrina a genocide. When the eleventh grader in my best student teacher’s class said, “But isn’t it true that Hitle