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Monday, October 31, 2022

LESSER HARMS

by Gil Hoy




I watched Liz Cheney  
on Meet the Press.
 
I think 
I’m warming up 
to her.
 
You heard me right. 
 
The same Liz Cheney 
 
Who opposes abortion rights.
 
You heard me right.
 
The same Liz Cheney 
 
Who loves guns, 
Hates immigrants 
and too much voting. 
 
      Who opposes police reform 
      and Obamacare
 
Who wants to ignore 
the warming earth.
 
Who likes ‘scription drugs 
that cost too much, 
and wealthy corporations 
that pay no taxes.   
 
You heard me right.
 
The same Liz Cheney
 
      Whose father 
      was 
      a war crim’nal.
 
“No one of any party should support 
election deniers.”
 
“No one should be out 
advocating for any candidate
who will not honor 
the sanctity of our election process.”
 
“We are talking about multiple instances 
of criminal misconduct by 
the former President of the United States.”
 
“I will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump 
is never President again. He will not be the President 
of the United States again.”

In today’s Republican Party,
even a Cheney 
can taste and smell 
sort of good.
 
In today’s Republican Party,
even a Cheney 
can taste pretty good
and smell somewhat sweet.
 
 
Gil Hoy is a Best of the Net nominated Tucson, Arizona poet and writer who studied fiction and poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program. Hoy previously received a BA in Philosophy from BU, an MA in Government from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. Hoy wrestled on BU’s wrestling team and finished in second place in the New England University Wrestling Championships his senior year. He served as a Brookline, MA Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Tipton Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, Ariel Chart, The Galway Review, Right Hand Pointing, Indian Periodical, Rusty Truck, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The New Verse News, The Penmen Review, Misfit Magazine, and elsewhere.