Forbidden Words By Odilia Galván Rodríguez
Forbidden Words
for those who will not be silenced
The evidence of your ignorance screams so loudly every time you twit- ter another snort about you or your thoughts about anything... you call foul play you the King of foul who rules the oligarchy by bad behavior lies and slurs you try to silence truths by calling everything fake news you the King of fake you can't stand words like diversity because you despise it you wouldn't know vulnerable because you are a bully who’s always banked on entitlement you abhor anyone 'other' not just the transgendered you the King of xenophobia saying you want to make America great again code for going backward in time to slavery to poverty to us with our heads bowed down forward in time to more wanton destruction of earth its people you the King of destruction of greed we need no science-based studies to tell us the world is dying we live out on the earth we’ve kneeled in its fields as farm workers as soldiers as warriors giving birth we do not live in towers in castles in White Houses and the future of fetuses everywhere even your future generations depend on us to RESIST!
Copyright © 2017 Odilia Galván Rodríguez. All Rights Reserved.
More 45 Quackery: He forbade the use of the following words in certain government documents: "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based."
Poem first appeared on Poets Responding
Odilia Galván Rodríguez. is a poet/writer/editor/activist/mom and wise-woman. She loves life, being in more than one place at a time (but can only pull that off in dreams,) justice, her familia, and hearing from all the voices in the room - preferably not all at once. She’s one of the founders of Poets Responding and Love and Prayers for Fukushima & The World on Facebook, and also edits Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal.