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"Makes Me Wonder"  by Thaddeus Buxton Winthrop

Mini-review. Definitely poetic. A rhyme scheme of xaxa in four 8/8/8/8 quatrains. The second part seems to flow better. The first part of end stop questions can read like a list though. Overall it comes off as 'heavy'. It may evoke some thought... but little emotion other than frustration. It 'asks' but does not 'show'. I give it a 4.0. Each question could be a prompt, best answered in a poem or story of its own.

Prompt: What things make you wonder?

I don't understand anti-scientists, anti-maskers, anti-change ... the demonization of people, especially by White Americans and White Nationalists and the governments in Poland and Hungary.

Yes, I understand there are good White folks out there. Been around them all my life. Very lovely people, but very sheltered years ago in rural Kansas. I never understood their racism though and still don't. Why such an unwillingness to embrace people who are different? And although I understand that it's hard to understand this when you live in areas that are 98% White, folks who live in majority minority areas have had to understand White folks ... if only to survive. Even #blacklivesmatter seems to be dismissed as some angry slogan instead of the reality that Black folk have had to endure for centuries.

But science and masks have nothing to do with race so I don't understand the opposition. Yes, I hear, "freedom!". But I ask, "how is your freedom blunted by being considerate of others?" Ah... perhaps because you don't value others? Especially since it's mostly elderly and poor Black and Native folks dying.

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