Sincerely, Jennifer x

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November 30, 2021

Red, White and Blue Houses

There’s a redhead in a one bed flat,with a baby that sobs the blues,his winter coat can’t stand up to the cold,and the sirens don’t let him sleep at night. “That’s just life” she tells him,rocking him for four futile hours,her eyes never leaving the broken lock on the front door,as the song of the…

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June 16, 2020

Marcus Rashford Is Right

We cry for statues, but not kids in poverty. Our tears are wasted. Our tears should drown us. The world is starved of kindness. A shameful cyclone. A shameful cycle. The poor will always perish, but statues live well. I recall hunger, optimistic and tired, so do so many. We worship the stone, our government’s…

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