Kimberly Vargas Agnese

only green lives matter (poem for Sallie Mae)


let’s talk about toads  in
coin purses.. and…

…folks who can’t

line

their

purses with

green backs…lets…
build

prisons around

them with

blood red signs

and green letter

clever slogans like…

“if you’re in debt it must be because you don’t handle money well”

or

“you must be lazy”

let’s encourage folks to
take out loans to

go to

college… neglect to

give them jobs… take

their last cloak so

we can sew

green back flags while…

Sallie Mae plays

anthems of

use me sue me usury

and

broken folks shake

their heads and

ask…

in God you trust?

so smarter… better… more

“responsible”

folks who won america’s

russian roulette can

smugly sneer at folks who

only have toads in

coin purses because ..

because…because…

because…because…

…only green lives matter…

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Published by Kimberly Vargas Agnese

My name is Kimberly Vargas Agnese, though I've previously written as Kae Bucher. I was born in the Florida Keys, but grew up in the Bay Area before migrating south to the San Joaquin Valley. As I ride barefoot around Fresno, I consider the paths I've chosen and the crossroads where our country seems to have perched itself. Thanks to my Romani ancestry, many people groups reside within me and my poetry tends to reflect this. I love welcoming the sunrise with my Native American flute. I've been rumored to juggle while teaching students how to write. And if you can't find me, I'm probably hanging out with Jesus listening to parables.

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  10. Love this poem! You should put together a book of your poems. Nice reading them here… but it’s always nicer to have an actual book! And your poems are definitely good enough to be published!

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