Sign Now
By Cheryl Rice
Sign here to let them know--
Sign here to stop--
Sign here to prevent, to end, to sound the alarm—
Internet petitions, good as the paper they’re not printed on,
evaporate in a wisp of good intentions,
collect up names and zip codes
for virtual roundups,
paper pogroms--
Internet petitions
evaporate into the outer stratosphere
their intended targets
proceeding as usual
their paths unchanged.
CAR 2/22/18
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Cheryl A. Rice is founder and host of the now-defunct “Sylvia Plath Bake-Off.” Rice's work has appeared in Baltimore Review, Florida Review, Home Planet News, Mangrove, The Temple, and Woodstock Times, among others. Chapbooks include Llama Love (2017: Flying Monkey Press), Moses Parts the Tulips (2013: APD Press), and My Minnesota Boyhood (2012: Post Traumatic Press). Her RANDOM WRITING workshops are held throughout the Hudson Valley. Her poetry blog is at: http://flyingmonkeyprods.blogspot.com/.