Shout

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.

the spines of books connect page to page writer to reader teacher to student page to page past to future pain to power page to page rage to peace

writing rage-poems by the sea pen, hands, claws stained with ink until the bottle runs dry and then I write in blood, spit, and fire lantern’s light in the mirror scattering the dark