Cancer for Cure (Erasure poem)

Disheveled

politics precondition and protest emotional responses.

Young women prefer economic confidence to facing insecurity

unglued.

Change takes more time.

A strategy of discredit and prison violence and

a set of demands tortured live on national television.

Dominated faces are

eager to caricature rebellion.

Older women seem drawn to God  – 

one approached him and wrapped her arms around his kiss.

Taken from Nick Miroff's "Student who lives with parents rises as a leader in Venezuela's protests" in the Washington Post (March 11th).