The following is an excerpt from “Fragments III: Democracy, “ a journal from T’ruah.
Not the Donkey Democrats
but the Dominion of the 
, (the Demos)
directed by the dirt poor, unpaid,
or doled out diminishing dollars for the
daily drudgery of their duties,
docents and disciples demanding
deliverance from debt and all the
diverse demographics of the devalued
who Do what gets Done.
D is for discourses to determine
decent distribution,
delicately design development,
decipher and disassemble domination.
so Done with diamond draped despots,
doctrines of discovery decreeing death.
we are drowning in dust.
Domestic demolition destroys dwellings.
Doomed dynasties drag us down
into depths of dependency,
denizens of deep deception
disguising dark dough, they
divide, dupe, and dispose of us all.
Don’t Despair, Dear Delinquents.
Dig into Disobedience.
Daringly Direct our Destinies.
Dream out of Dormancy
into Defiance, my Darlings,
D Dammit, is for what is Due
AURORA LEVINS MORALES (she/her/ella) is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi poet, essayist, and fiction writer. She is the author of nine books, including the forthcoming “Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation” (Ayin Press, 2024) and “The Story of What is Broken is Whole: An Aurora Levins Morales Reader” (Duke University Press, 2024). A community supported artist-intellectual, she relies on Patreon, where she blogs regularly: https://www.patreon.com/auroralevinsmorales. She lives in Maricao, Puerto Rico.