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Thursday, August 16, 2018

ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

by Scott C. Kaestner



Image source: The New York Times in solidarity with more than 350 newspapers editorializing today on the value of America’s free press.


The real enemy of the people are people

who don’t see themselves in other
people; in people unlike them
an undeniable commonality

in people our fate lies
people need other people
to hold up a mirror so as to say

“Listen people, we are one.”


Scott C. Kaestner is a Los Angeles poet and dream weaver who eats cereal twice daily. Google 'scott kaestner poetry' to peruse his musings and doings.