I hate her.
I’m used to hating her.
I don’t want to call forth
a loving heart that says
Everyone has some good in them.
Everyone deserves another chance.
Her behavior has always been disgusting.
Witness - unfortunately I did—her vile
and despicable condemnation of Dr. Fauci
to his face. Unforgettable. Unforgiveable.
She’s finally doing something
on the side of right
and I should praise her for it?
Thank her better angels—
if she has any—that she is possibly
at the start of becoming a better person?
I don’t buy it. No benefit of the doubt.
She’s had years to show me who she is.
I actually laughed with amazement
listening to her at the anti Epstein rally.
My sister said, of course she’s a supporter,
she’s a woman.
Please. Isn’t she also a mother?
Does she care with a similar passion
about the schoolchildren traumatized/murdered
because of policies and people she supports?
All my life I’ve said, Nobody’s perfect.
Be grateful for any step a person takes.
Don’t expect them to support all your causes.
Don’t expect a big change all at once.
So why is my hatred for her so strong
that I see selfishness and hypocrisy
in standing up for one gender, one issue,
while condemning everyone/everything else
she has sworn to serve and protect?
With another person I would say
Give credit where credit is due.
It was courageous to oppose other MAGA’s.
But to me she doesn’t deserve women’s gratitude
so much as she deserves to be used by them for all
they can get out of her.
After all, sometimes it takes a real bitch
to tell the scumbags where to go.
Alessandra Foster. Lifelong and long-lived reader and writer of poems. Published in Bramble, Literary Veganism, Verse-Virtual.
