Even though
North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis
has won re-election
to the US Senate
with 48.8 percent of the vote
over Kay Hagan's 47.2
(a sliver of a victory
thanks not to better policy
but to changes in voting rules
such as elimination
of same-day registration)
the Reverend
William J. Barber II
is not going down
without an ice-skating competition
for issues such as
Medicaid expansion
(and civil rights expansion
and labor rights expansion
and environmental policy expansion
and women's health care expansion
you know
little things like that).
He says
"We will fight
until hell freezes over
and then
we will fight on the ice."
McCrory rolls his eyes
into the back of a head
which charitably contains a brain.
But whether the ice can survive
a mass of 25,000 people
for another Moral Monday
on February 14th of 2015
remains to be seen.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
