March 1 2025
Monday NIght Poetry Prompt: Censorship
Executive order 14168
(My version)
We, women, do not need defending
From gender ideology
We, humans, reject this extremism
We reject your ridiculous calls
Of restoring so called biological truth
For like a manipulator
Like a gas lighter
You twist and stretch the truth
To conform to your version
A version that bans words
Forbids phrases
Calls upon those who bow down to you
To remove words and phrases
To delete these words from government
Documents and websites
We reject this extremism
We reject your ridiculous calls
Of restoring so called biological truth
By the authority vested in me
As a Poet by the Constitution and laws
Of Monday Night Poetry
Including section
Go Fuck Yourself of the
United States of having your head’s so far up the felon’s ass
It is hereby ordered:
Section 1
Purpose
Across the country
Fascist assholes who want to police
And control people’s right to live openly
As who they know themselves to be
This is wrong
We, women, including transgender women
DO NOT need protection from our
Fellow transgender women
We need protection from heterosexual cisgender men
Section 2
Policy and Definitions
It is the policy of humans to have free speech
To continue to use these words and phrases
To continue living as we know ourselves to be
To continue to tell the fascists to fuck off
Sex IS a concept of gender identity
Women and girl refers to those who identify as such
Men and boy refers to those who identify as such
Female and Male are NOT binary
Gender Ideology will continue to be used and written
Gender identity will continue to be used and written
Each agency and all Federal employees
Shall mind their own damn business
The Secretaries of State and Homeland security
Shall keep their hands off our
Passports
IDs
And visas
Section 4
Protecting Rights
The Attorney General shall not
Issue guidance to restrict freedom to
Express beyond the binary nature of sex and gender
Section 5
Agency Implantation and Reporting
The agency shall not change agency documents
To reflect this fascist change
This order is intended to allow
We citizens to exercise our freedoms
For you can erase and ban all the words and phrases you want
You will NOT erase the existence of who and what these words represent
Camilla Downs, 2024
Prompt: Censorship
I used EO 14168, mirroring my poem with it.
Link to this horrible, vile order –