{"id":3121,"date":"2018-05-23T09:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2018-05-23T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:33:11","slug":"activist-poem-yet-another-trump-tuesday-at-sen-portmans-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/activist-poem-yet-another-trump-tuesday-at-sen-portmans-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist POEM: Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Empower verses<\/strong>
\nIn power<\/strong>
\nWhat is won to think?<\/strong>
\nLying in wait<\/strong>
\nMiring our advocacy<\/strong>
\nSwamped with democracy<\/strong>
\nWhen and how to mete US<\/strong>
\nWe go through the drill<\/strong>
\nLairs of representation<\/strong>
\nAs hour representative<\/strong>
\nRepresented by representatives<\/strong>
\nAnd sum how still amiss representative<\/strong>
\nEven as anyone can read the signs<\/strong>
\nAlong standing<\/strong>
\nHi noon<\/strong>
\nAs if genuflecting the one<\/strong>
\nWho helled office<\/strong>
\nOnly in attendance<\/strong>
\nIn a shadowy cloak<\/strong>
\nWore of attrition<\/strong>
\nBy hook or crook<\/strong>
\nNever quite present to us<\/strong>
\nWe no demonstrably <\/strong>
\nWe have hit AWOL<\/strong>
\nYet ever so rightly<\/strong>
\nWill pass on our tidings<\/strong>
\nAnd the next weak<\/strong>
\nIn wake of yet an other attack<\/strong>
\nWe will rise agin<\/strong>
\nSea you soon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indivisible Toledo holds a Trump Tuesday protest at noon every Tuesday outside Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s office in Toledo. We have been doing this since Donald Trump’s inauguration. \"Activism<\/a>Typically, a legislative aide has meet with protesters at least every few weeks. Yesterday, a legislative aide met with us for the first time in over two months, a new record for unavailability. We have never been able to meet with Sen. Portman, nor has he ever met our oft repeated request to have a public town hall meeting anywhere in Ohio — though we particularly invite him to have a town hall meeting in Toledo. Our meeting was particularly intense, reflecting cumulative rage over President Trump, and the silence of Republican congresspeople, specifically Sen. Portman. Sen. Portman has over four years til his re-election campaign, and he seems intent on biding his time during the tumultuous Trump presidency. \"Globalize<\/a>He is a quite reliable vote for the Trump agenda. This poem was inspired by our meeting yesterday, and our chronic frustration in not having any direct access to our elected official. Of course, with or without Sen. Portman, the resistance will continue.<\/p>\n

Feel free to browse my designs on dissent and resistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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