PANDEMIC DIARY

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NOTORIOUS R.B.G.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg May her voice rise above the din of fear and the pandemic of hate and ‘otherism’.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
May her voice rise above the din of fear and the pandemic of hate and ‘otherism’.

September 20, 2020

NOT FORGOTTEN

A body diminutive;
a chirp and a flutter
might her wings break

But, no. Her gilded intellect
Soars, casting shadows
on black robes

Her power makes men
cower having Truth
to bare and the
burden of law.

A conservatives carnage:
literalists, originalists
remain to mold freedom
for the few.

What is left but philosophical
squalor and civil unrest.
A pandemic of politics.

There is only us left
in her passing and Right
rubble. Only us.

The body will lie in
State. Our commitment
shall rise from narrow
pine encampment,

Like a vision of He who
had risen, and engender
the equality and freedom
that one body diminutive
fought and died for.