Keep on Truck...

Is the title of a poem in No Town Called We (out in fall 2023 with Talonbooks! note the clever marketing plug!) and is also what it feels like to exhort oneself to keep on moving in this late capitalist wage freeze grocery inflation hellscape we are all living through, and is also what it feels like to live in Alberta in any year since 1905. Trucks! We love 'em!

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"Many have relayed to me that feminist colleagues, often senior feminists, often senior white feminists, were among those who told them not to speak in public about cases of sexual harassment, in other words, who told them to "keep a lid on it.""

— Sara Ahmed, Complaint!

#AmReading

Here comes the smoke again
Falling on my head like a memory
Filling up my lungs like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
Want to dive into an ocean
Is it raining with you?

#eurythmics #AlbertaWildfire