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Jan 12, 2025 | 
theatlantic.com | Marge Piercy
No snow yet this fall but the gardens are just dirt now, nothing left to eat except invisible parsnips lurking below. The snowbirds are fleeing South to endless summer, Florida, Arizona, Mexico, the Caribbean. Some of us actually like winter. It’s quiet and offers its own beauty, chiaroscuro or blazing white. The real birds flock to feeders, competing with squirrels. In summer, flowers give color; in winter, birds. Flashes of red on woodpecker heads, bellies.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
monthlyreview.org | Marge Piercy
Angry entitled white menwith fancy guns that can firefaster than thought killand kill and plan to kill moreas they flee their massacres. Children make good prey. They can’t fire back or runfast enough. Assault weaponsdon’t leave TV’s tidy corpses. They rip bodies apart, tearorgans to chopped meat,a bloody mess to identify. What pleasure does killing give? Does ending the lives of othersmake yours suddenly worthwhile?
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
morningstaronline.co.uk | Marge Piercy
The rich have spoiled almosteverything. They have drivenresidents from any hamletby the sea, gentrifiedcosy neighbourhoods, somehistorical. High rises, boutiquesreplace funky local eateries,markets with ethnic foods. They make money off bad airthat chokes, darkens skies. They make money sendingjobs to sweatshops overseas. They raise rents higher, highertill most people have to leavecities, neighbourhoods theygrew up in, knew neighbours. They buy hospitals and turna profit. No insurance? Outyou go.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
monthlyreview.org | Marge Piercy
The rich have spoiled almosteverything. They have drivenresidents from any hamletby the sea, gentrifiedcozy neighborhoods, somehistorical. High rises, boutiquesreplace funky local eateries,markets with ethnic foods. They make money off bad airthat chokes, darkens skies. They make money sendingjobs to sweatshops overseas. They raise rents higher, highertill most people have to leavecities, neighborhoods theygrew up in, knew neighbors. They buy hospitals and turna profit. No insurance? Outyou go.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
mministry.org | Marge Piercy |Mark Ramsey |Elizabeth Lynn
Posted on February 29, 2024 in Blog, Digging A Deeper Well Entering our local gym, we hear the same instructions every time.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
monthlyreview.org | Marge Piercy
A tender rain wanders downon a day when fires burnelsewhere, elsewhere—for now. Ashes float on smoky windover houses that no longerexist, over crisp bodiesand their pets. Fires rage, all destroyedexcept profits of oil andgas. Executives, share-holders smile. Politicians pocket checksvote as rich pals desire. Storms rage, tornadoes churnTrees turn torches. Has common sense leftthe room? Are kindness,empathy burned and gone? No profits there.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
monthlyreview.org | Marge Piercy
Dear Reader, we make this and other articles available for free online to serve those unable to afford or access the print edition of Monthly Review. If you read the magazine online and can afford a print subscription, we hope you will consider purchasing one. Please visit the MR store for subscription options. Thank you very much. No wonder you’ve cometo the E.R. Why didn’t youtake the medicine prescribedfor you. So careless. You couldn’t afford it? Again, how thoughtless.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
monthlyreview.org | Marge Piercy
This morning I woke to the firstreal snowfall of the winteralthough it’s almost March. It stretched pretty and blindingbut I started seeds inside justyesterday. Now frozen ground. Everything’s out of kilter. Blizzard in Los Angelestornadoes every other day. We’ve driven the earth crazy. The morning news: where’stoday’s mass shooting? School, synagogue, church,mall, a parade, a park? Ifa president or an actor’sshot: big news.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
countryandtownhouse.com | Olivia Emily |Sofia Tindall |Emma Love |Marge Piercy
Comedian Freya Parker is about to take to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival stage alone with a brand new show, after finding success in 2018 with the Lazy Susan duo’s hit show, Forgive Me Mother!. We sat down with Freya ahead of her Edinburgh run. Interview: Freya ParkerHi Freya, how’s life going at the moment? Oh hello! It’s full of light stress and snacks, but I can’t complain. You’re about to return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a solo show – can you give us an elevator pitch for the show?
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
monthlyreview.org | Marge Piercy
Dear Reader, we make this and other articles available for free online to serve those unable to afford or access the print edition of Monthly Review. If you read the magazine online and can afford a print subscription, we hope you will consider purchasing one. Please visit the MR store for subscription options. Thank you very much. Government officials, police,media rant against legalizingpot. Opiates were handed outby doctors like Halloween candy. Now we live with those deaths.
