Poem for Stephen Chbosky, Ellen Hopkins, George M. Johnson, Maia Kobabe,
Toni Morrison, George Orwell, me, and you, dear reader
Toni Morrison, George Orwell, me, and you, dear reader
The purpose of banning books is it's burning books but without the fire, ash of absence;
whether Nazi or China or Reformation or
our lit-shaming cancel culture,
the goal is simply
hoping for
voices
that
die
.
