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Bottom Line Blues
(the Remix…)
what’s going on
in this land gone wrong?
it’s the Epstein files / war &
tariffs / gas prices / ICE agents
civil rights -abusing sheriffs
strained international relations!
DEI hire fixations / every day
I dread the news on CNN
music is supposed to soothe me
anesthetize /uplift / “come thru
when I choose thee”
but it’s not working
these Blues feel so relentless
o the chaos! / it’s beyond descrip-
tion / it’s corruption / & “where’s the
make-it-better prescription?”
I’m so tired
of singing these
Bottom Line
Blues
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Connie Johnson has multiple Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry. A California-based writer, she has authored Everything is Distant Now (Blue Horse Press) and I Have Almost Everything (Boats Against the Current). In a Place of Dreams, her digital chapbook (containing audio readings/personal narrative), was published by Jerry Jazz Musician. Click here to view it.
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Watch Ben Harper perform his composition “Better Way” [Ben Harper]
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