Once upon a time in the summer of 2017 a Big Bad American Wolf huffed and puffed with self-importance.
And the Big Bad American Wolf said to the rest of the World, I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your houses down because your houses are not the right shade of green.
Our houses are green, our money is green – Americans are the mean green dancing machines.
On Putin, on Pittsburgh, on Prancer for sure, but Paris oh no, you’ve lost your allure.
Keep your huddled masses of immigrants and terrorists to yourselves.
That give- us- your- tired- and- poor- malarkey is over.
America is sovereign – we rock, and you roll.
Baa, baa ex- black sheep that was so very weak,
All the wool belongs to the Wolf now – he thinks it’s his to keep.
Not on my watch.
Published by Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ+ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ+ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award. Her writings have been included in various anthologies including Out Loud: the best of Rainbow Radio, Saints and Sinners New Fiction from the 2017 Festival, Mothers and Other Creatures; Cowboys, Cops, Killers, and Ghosts (Texas Folklore Society LXIX).
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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Perfection.
Sadly so.
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Thanks, Bob…such a sad day.
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Another sad day to wake up to the news.
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I am so sorry, Annie. 62% of Americans support the Paris environmental accords.
It was a sad day to be an American.
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We heard it was 70%.
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Depends on the polls! Regardless, there is overwhelming support for the Paris Agreement here in the States. Observe backlash against the withdrawal…massive.
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