Tag: Remy Dambron

Right to Life

By Remy Dambron

Imagine instead
if we incentivized our citizens

to stalk and spy on
to report and incriminate

those among us preparing
for an assault,

purchasing pistols
brandishing rifles and boasting bump stocks

customizing scopes and fastening silencers
loading up on boxes of bullets intended

to pierce our flesh
to break our bones

to end the beating
of the bleeding hearts

of our brethren.

I wonder then
how the conversation

about the sanctity of life
would go.

 

Remy is an activist whose work focuses on denouncing political corruption and advocating for social justice. His poetry has appeared in What Rough Beast, New Verse News, Poets Reading the News, Society of Classical Poets, and Writers Resist. He credits his wife, also his chief editor, for his growth and development as a Portland-based writer. Visit Remy’s website.

Illustration by Stephen Melkisethian via a Creative Commons license.

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Ten Commandments from the Book of MAGA

By Chris Maiurro and Remy Dambron, an artist-author collaboration

I.     I alone am your news, you shall not have other news besides me.
II.    Thou shalt not make unto thee global waming or covfefe.
III.   Thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord, your vain president.
IV.   Remember which came first, the wheel and the wall.
V.    Honor thy twitter and fox.
VI.   Thou shalt not kill unless invoking the second amendment.
VII.  Thou shalt not commit adultery above one hundred thirty thousand.
VIII. Thou shalt not be caught stealing.
IX.   Though shalt only bear witness to false and alternate facts.
X.    Thou shalt only covet thy partisan goods.

 

Remy and Chris met in Portland, Oregon during March for Our Lives 2018. They have since teamed up to advocate for equal rights, attending community-led events that promote social justice and collaborating on poetry, prose, and imagery that denounce political corruption.