My Poem on the Troubles in Portland is Posted in the New York Times.

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tim torkildson | utah This sentence: ". . . how much more powerful it is for changemakers to endure violence than to commit it." The squeaky wheel may get the grease/if they can but survive police/and troops that swoop down in the night/to give the innocent a fright/When presidents intimidate/it's time for them to abdicate/You cannot sterilize free speech/or keep control of what folk preach/When steam is bottled up, you know/it has a tendency to blow/Mahatma Gandhi would agree/that Trump misreads democracy.

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