Where Modesty Meets Destiny
written by: Jen Schneider
As we’d protest, we’d walk on streets. A stroll, mostly. To have our say. Along the sides of the avenue would be a mix of attitudes. PROTEST would blend with MODEST. Sentiments unhinged and unhued. The angry voices were hard to ignore. The hostile taunts were hard to endure. In those moments, I’d recall what I’d been taught.
Inhale. Exhale. Breathe. Be. We. Deserve. An Equal. Destiny.
Jen Schneider is an educator who lives, writes, and works in small spaces throughout Pennsylvania. She is a Best of the Net nominee, with stories, poems, and essays published in a wide variety of literary and scholarly journals. She is the author of A Collection of Recollections (Next Chapter), Invisible Ink (Toho Pub), On Daily Puzzles: (Un)locking Invisibility and On Crossroads and Fill in the Blank Puzzles (forthcoming, Moonstone Press), and Blindfolds, Bruises, and Breakups (forthcoming, Atmosphere Press).
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