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Robert Leonard's avatar

That last line...

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thank you, Robert! I was going to have you read it on the call but you had to hop. Chuck read my first version.

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Robert Leonard's avatar

I would have been honored!

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Next time! You’re a great reader.

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Mary Riche's avatar

Be smart, not too smart. Pow! Smile, but not too wide. Pow! Whatever you do, do not be angry. Bang!

With your brilliance, you've done it again. Thank you for putting words to the personal angst I'm feeling about social justice these days.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Could just be a feminist poem too, aye? Xxo

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Barb George's avatar

Wow, Suzanna! So very Powerful!

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thanks so much, friend!

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Linda D Appelgate's avatar

Wow! That poem is so powerful. It needs to be out there for the world to see.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thank you, Linda. Appreciate your comment!

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Cheryl Tevis's avatar

Succinct and strong rebuke!

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thanks so much, Cheryl.

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Elizabeth Barnhill's avatar

Another powerful poem about the backtracking of our country. Thank you.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Many thanks for reading and commenting!

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suzieQ's avatar

Powerful truth.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thank you for your comment, Sue!

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Felicia Babb Cass's avatar

wow, amazing.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thank you very much for reading and commenting.

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Diane Porter's avatar

This cuts to the bone. Well done.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thank you, Diane. I always appreciate your comments and am grateful for your readership. As an aside, I've forwarded your column along to several folks who love birds, plants and the natural world.

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Diane Porter's avatar

My sincere thanks!

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Kathi Zimpleman's avatar

Thank you, Suzanna. I am passing these powerful words far and wide.

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Suzanna de Baca's avatar

Thank you so much for subscribing and commenting.

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Borrowed Ladder's avatar

“You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.”

At what point does this 'special treatment' end and no one is given an advantage to atone for some past injustice?

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