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Tuesday, January 01, 2019

SHORT POEM FOR THE NEW YEAR

John Guzlowski's writing appears in Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, Rattle, Ontario Review, North American Review, and other journals. His poems and personal essays about his Polish parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany and refugees in Chicago appear in his memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues. Echoes received the 2017 Benjamin Franklin Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Award for most thought-provoking book of the year. He is also the author of two Hank Purcell mysteries and the war novel Road of Bones.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

THE WAR ON HAPPY HOLIDAYS

by Chris O’Carroll

Editorial cartoon by Richard Crowson, The Wichita Eagle, December 8, 2013

We do not wish you happy holidays.
O’Reilly warns against that liberal plot.
How dare you celebrate in diverse ways?
Just one gets our OK; the rest do not.

Our “Merry Christmas!” is not a benign
Warm wish. It is an icy battle cry.
Inclusive salutations we decline
To utter. Limbaugh we have heard on high.

A manger scene at every City Hall
Is ours by right. And children of the poor
Deserve no government food aid at all.
Tax funds for welfare? No! For holy war!

All non-sectarian good will we shun.
God bless us. But just some, not every one.

Chris O’Carroll is a writer and an actor. In addition to his previous New Verse News appearances, he has published poems in BigCityLit, the Kansas City Star, Lighten Up Online, Umbrella, and the Washington Post, among other print and online journals, and also in the anthologies The Best of the Barefoot Muse and 20 Years at the Cantab Lounge.

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Tuesday, January 01, 2019

SHORT POEM FOR THE NEW YEAR

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

THE WAR ON HAPPY HOLIDAYS