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Sunday, November 10, 2024

I’VE GOT A LITTLE LIST

 by Felicia Nimue Ackerman


Your country elected a felon,
A bigot and con artist too,
But here is a list of the reasons
It shouldn't be worrying you:




Felicia Nimue Ackerman is a professor of philosophy at Brown University and has around 320 poems in places including American Atheist, The American Scholar, Better Than Starbucks, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Down in the Dirt, The Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, Free Inquiry, Light Poetry Magazine, Lighten Up Online, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Options (Rhode Island's LGBTQ+ magazine), Politics/Letters, The Providence Journal, Scientific American, Sparks of Calliope, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Your Daily Poem. She has also had ten previous poems in The New Verse News.