Nature's Tat†Øo

Her Scar

BY PETER SPAGNUOLO

Remember me: the murmuring lips half said
in half-light, buried in the hollow
a boy’s neck made, as now inside his head
they stir again, though twenty years swallow
the purest parts of her, all but her plea,
this taunt—what act from him could it command?
The boy who’d know is gone—Re-member me—
but what man can assemble limbs, make stand
again those legs that twined in his, or hitch
the yoke of hips to sway and resurrect
a girl? I try, but only recollect
her scar—each lewd, profaning, cautered stitch—
vermiform, red, furrowed belly to breast:
where nights, long past, he’d laid his head in rest.
Source: Poetry (October 2010).

Sir SnowDen~

Dear Fight for the Future,

Here’s a quick emergency action item. I’m not sure if we’ll win this, but it’s definitely worth a shot.

In short, a few heroes in Congress successfully introduced an amendment (Massie-Lofgren) to defund key parts of the NSA’s spying apparatus. But today, party leaders want to kill it.

Can you make three quick calls right now to defend our victory against the NSA?

Here are their phone numbers:

House Speaker John Boehner: (202) 225-0600
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: (202) 225-4965
Appropriations Chair Hal Rogers: (202) 225-4601

When you call, be polite, but tell them: “I’m a constituent and I care about my privacy from government searches. Don’t block the Massie-Lofgren amendment.”

If you want to get technical (up to you!) try explaining how terrible an idea it is for the US government to be inserting backdoors and weakening encryption in American tech products. (The Massie-Lofgren amendment would cut off funding for these activities.)

Either way, please do make these three calls. It takes just a few minutes, and it’s totally worth it.

Thanks for doing this!