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Freedom is
My family
Coming over
On boats
To try
And die
In a place
Where opportunity
Is more important than
Survivability.
Freedom is
The bra burners
The sitters
The marchers
The ones who
Got raped
Got killed
So that I
Can stand in
A booth
And punch a
Button that says
“Vote.”
Freedom is
The fact that I can
Disagree
That I can
Hate
That I can be
Appalled by
That I can
Spit vitriol
About my
Country and
Not be maimed
Or killed.
Freedom is
The ones who came
Before me
To make my
World something
I can change for
The better for
The ones who
Come
After me.
-E.M. Green
E.M. Green is a 32 year old woman from Knoxville, TN. She fashions herself to be a writer in the same way that the Velveteen Rabbit fashioned himself to be a real rabbit. Hopefully her story will end up much like his. E.M. also works as a grocer so never compares 4135s to 4013s. She spends copious time on Facebook but hopes to accomplish more with her life than getting more than 40 likes on that picture of herself with Ron Perlman. In her lifetime E.M. has written playbill blurbs, poems, screenplays, prose, articles, and more than a few greeting cards which have sustained her creative expression thus far. Being a greedy little writer, there is always room for more.
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