Michele Feltman Strider on Nostr: First they came for the libraries And I did not speak out Because I was not a ...
First they came for the libraries
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a librarian
Then they came for the Trans people
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Trans
Then they came for the Latinos
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Latino
Then they came for the white Midwestern minivan moms...
Y'all, we're way too many stanzas into this poem.
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