Though milk isn't the protagonist, it plays a strong supporting role. We'll count it. The Joy of Spilled Milk by Trish Somers “Unaccompanied Alien Child” Gods gift to an oh so needy world Cures for the diseases for which you only have treatments Solutions to the problems for which your leaders are quietly desperate There are not enough milk cartons for all of their faces Their cereal bowls sitting in cupboards as they now only see the faces of strangers Their cereal bowls left empty Empty as the tales she heard so many of Empty as the decency she so clearly imagined Empty as her arms aching for her only son crying in the loving arms of concertina wire The buzz from high tension power lines humming all their lullabies under lights that stay on all night Please just one more chance to cry over spilled milk Tears of joy and happiness I would surely shed just for the chance to see him spill his milk again Crazy laughing when it comes out of his nose We didn’t know it was the last time We never even got to say good bye or adios Zero tolerance came and took them all away Calling children alien while fortunes are made from the ones they hold and use as “deterrents” In the small hands of each child a piece to the puzzle of our fate is placed.
author bio: Trish also has poetry, essays, and debates with the editor of The American Dissident, a semi-annual print journal. She can be found online at Outlaw Poetry. https://outlawpoetry.com/
Hmm. Was kann ich sagen? I think a big problem is that perhaps many of us do not feel a damn thing for the faceless children who we’ve never seen, never met. Sure, I’d likely care if something terrible happened to a particular child with a name and face. Maybe I’m just a de-sentient humanoid? Apparently, Trish is different. But if she really cared, then, as I’ve told her before, perhaps she’d be down at the border helping out–handing out taxpayer funded diapers, food, etc. Over 200 dead from trying to cross illegally, thanks to Biden’s open borders policy! The Biden chaos has not yet reached here, where I am living, but I’m sure it’s on the way. The US can simply not afford to feed, house, and educate thousands (millions) of illegals. Only Cloud-Niners think it can or maybe they’re rather hoping to destroy democracy–the remnants of it we still have. BTW, I’m not against milk! I use it everyday in my cafecito! Keep on trucking’ Trish!!!
G. Tod Slone, Ed.
The American Dissident
August 10, 2021, 7:35 am
How is it that the editor who calls me “OBSESSED” about these
children would now post a comment suggesting I do not “really
care”? Such a comment would make someone doubt whatever
they even felt about the poem, assuming they felt anything at all,
because it makes it seem like it doesn’t come from a sincere or
good place.
Back around March 2020 you told me there was no such thing as a
“baby jail” and said I was on “cloud nine” among other things, when
I first started debating you.
The American Dissident issue #39
I suggest you look into the $200-$800 daily fee per child paid
to the for profit prison corporations and also non-profit
organizations. All of this on your dime, your taxes fund this. It is
a bit worse theing held in detainment are making anywhere between
$200-$800 PER DAY FOR EACH SINGLE CHILD
I would be curious to know if Mr. Slone has a turd in his back pocket
when he says “we do not give a damn”. I would love to hear if you
do or not, or what you think. Whether you do or do not give a damn,
you will not get a hassle from me and I am not going to try and
convince you of anything. You care what you care about. In fact,
it seems like we do not even really get to decide that, it just is what
it is.
Thanks
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
EXACTLY! Thank you so much, Kailey. It is great to know there are some of us that get it,
even if others seem to have some sort of empathy deficit or something. What they are
doing flies in the face of what this country was built -for and with. The recipe’s right there on the
Statue of Liberty herself. Perhaps they should just move her to a border crossing station .
I always think of the passage you sent in, so it was really great to see it here. Thanks again:)
Tricia,
Well, I thought this country was built for slaves in accord with the 1619 Project! The fundamental problem is quite simple: the ideal vs. the reality. Unfortunately, the latter will/has turn/ed into chaos, beheadings, rapes, sex trafficking, fentanyl ODs, robberies, housing quandaries, feeding impossibilities, Corona outbreaks, 9/11s, etc. The former sounds nice, but it is not/cannot be the latter. Open borders is chaos, higher and higher taxes, higher and higher inflation, more and more Big Gov regulations and consequent less and less freedom. The bigger the population, the less power to individuals and consequent more power to Big Gov. And we end up inevitably with
Elite Hypocrite Frauds
Privileged socialist
mansion
dwellers
like Obama and his Hollywood worshippers…
G. Tod Slone, Ed.
The American Dissident
todslone@hotmail.com
http://www.theamericandissident.org
Good Morning!
I see. So, according to you, this is a country all about FREEDOM is it not? In fact unlike
other countries, we have loved ones who have lost limbs, lost loved ones, lost their minds
to the point that they are homeless in the richest country of the world, and even lost their
lives in both literal AND figurative terms. And this was for what? Could it per chance be
FREEDOM? It seems to me that to have jails for the children of people who came seeking
freedom all across this country, from sea to shining see the tent freaking cities sea is
nothing short of an abomination of everything this country was was WAS founded for.
Not only was it founded for FREEDOM, but it was built by the very people who are
in fact necessary and ESSENTIAL to sustain it. They are foundational. They bring to the
table qualities that cannot be purchased with any amount of mere monetary wealth.
People that have to overcome hardship just to get here already have America in their heart
and soul in a way that people who are born here and have to do nothing to be here simply
do not even understand. They already love this country because they have likely grown
up being told that this is the place that embodies the values they hold dear. How do you
suppose that would have happened? Well isn’t that what the US has built it’s brand on for
over 200 years? So what was that a bait and switch? A trap? The jailing of any children,
innocent or not, no matter who or where they are etc etc is an act that there is not even
a bad enough word to describe it with. That it should happen on the land that our loved
ones fought to have FREEDOM on is blasphemous, disrespectful and utterly disgusting.
The fact that people are PROFITING and making fortunes doing it is beyond words and
ought to really p** you off. You do not even reply to that point , which is par for the
course with you isn’t it? This is the dance you do. I know I have been doing it over a year.
I have plenty to say about the things in your reply, but I will simply keep making my point
until you damn well reply to it. You think I do not have a thousand more things to say
about my point until you finally answer it TRY ME! OMG friggin try me cos I have typed
thousands upon thousands of words into a machine for the past five years about the
outrage of this subject and I am just waiting. People that overcome huge or any obstacles
at all love this country. People like you who were born here want to shut them out. That is
foolhardy on it’s face and it is catastrophic for the country. Let me see if I can make you
understand what I am saying MR CLARITY- People who just keeping getting back up no
matter how many times you knock them down are EXACTLY what this country needs. MORE
of them not less. People who already love this country (inexplicably these days) and manage
to make it here because of their resolve, determination, and STAUNCHNESS the very thing
you say is soooo important will not hurt your precious democracy, your democracy was
in fact built by them and WiLL DIE without them. It is the people who are trying to keep them
out that will in fact kill this country and you are helping them to kill it. RESEARCH your subject
matter before you write things. You are helping to bring down FOS another thing you say you
are all about because this is the very thing that gives them their excuse. It is the responsible thing
to do and as I have told you countless times it is a minimum of courtesy to the person who
will waste their time debating you, only to have you constantly ignore what they say as if it
was never said. This is what politicians are so good at. They get asked a question and they
just ignore and then go into their little mini speech saying whatever they want to say. You
would make a good politician Mr. Slone . The cat’s chicken is burning and I really have to go
-for now. I have a bunch of links I can add, if you can do that on here. Have a great day, ok?
How is it that the editor who calls me “OBSESSED” about these
children would now post a comment suggesting I do not “really
care”? Such a comment would make someone doubt whatever
they even felt about the poem, assuming they felt anything at all,
because it makes it seem like it doesn’t come from a sincere or
good place.
Back around March 2020 you told me there was no such thing as a
“baby jail” and said I was on “cloud nine” among other things, when
I first started debating you.
The American Dissident issue #39
I suggest you look into the $200-$800 daily fee per child paid
to the for profit prison corporations and also non-profit
organizations. All of this on your dime, your taxes fund this. It is
a bit worse than diapers and food
Here is your clarity clause, so you can understand, Mr. Slone :
For profit prison corps and non profit organizations that have these
children being held in detainment are making anywhere between
$200-$800 PER DAY FOR EACH SINGLE CHILD
I would be curious to know if Mr. Slone has a turd in his back pocket
when he says “we do not give a damn”. I would love to hear if you
do or not, or what you think. Whether you do or do not give a damn,
you will not get a hassle from me and I am not going to try and
convince you of anything. You care what you care about. In fact,
it seems like we do not even really get to decide that, it just is what
it is.
Thanks .