It never should have gotten this far.

Donald Trump’s political career should have been over on July 15, 2015, the day he announced his campaign for President. “When Mexico sends its people,” he said. “They’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

At the very latest it should have ended on December 18, 2015. That was the day he decided that there should be a religious test to enter the United States. “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” a press release put out by his campaign stated, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was not only a bigot, but a moron who had no understanding of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, “until our…

​”I’m torn”, I said,

walking these desolate boulevards, cut by splinters of glass shards,

“I’m torn too”, she said,

so let us walk together, at times alone, buffering our hearts from turning to stone,

let us walk hand in hand, though painful it may be to hold firm, to make a stand,

“I’ll walk with you”, she said, if we share a couple of laughs, amidst the tears,

“We’ll walk together”, embracing the onslaught of the years … … …