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HerStory Steps Into the Ring
HerStory Steps Into the Ring
By Jane Tawel
May 13, 2021
And someone said that “History isn’t the story that actually happened, you know.”
“History is the story of what they want to believe.”
And all I could manage to mumble was,
“there will be wars and the rumors of wars”.
*
The newspapers had started to look almost cheery in my country;
But then I remembered that though
the civil warmongers on my shores,
had made their peace by making new confederate flags,
flags that appeared to me,
seen from the distance of my dismay,
all blackened and borrowed.
Yes, even though we had returned to the
more boring news cycles
of mass murders, suicides and food lines,
there was always tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
creeping like creepy-crawlers into this petty place,
helping my own country keep pace
with the rest
