“Love Poem for Scott Walker”

Many states, including my own state of Ohio, are facing severely anti-union bills. Anti-union sentiment is nothing new, and these governors and legislators are not creative or original in the least. They repeat century-old arguments while calling them new solutions for a way for.

Gloria Anzaldúa reminds us that responsibility means literally the ability to respond. There are many forms this response can take – in Ohio, a response to SB 5 is to organize a public referendum vote with the goal of repealing this un-democratic law. But poetry can be a response, to. And in that vein, I wrote the poem “Love Poem for Scott Walker.” Let me know what you think of it.