Donald Trump<\/a>. \u201cWhen I\u2019m present and looking out at my own yard and the trees and all of that, it\u2019s still as beautiful as it ever was,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then there are times of great sorrow and times of frustration, like everybody. And I found that the poetry helps \u2014 just doing it and getting it down on paper or on computer to keep my head above water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tAt the moment, Baez isn\u2019t sure if she\u2019ll gather her growing collection of topical verse into a book, and she doesn\u2019t see them transforming into songs, either, especially given some of their irregular structures. \u201cI spoke with other songwriters because I thought, \u2018Why isn\u2019t this working?\u2019\u201d she says of an early attempt. \u201cAnd they said, from their experience, it doesn\u2019t work trying to put poetry to music.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tAs another type of relief, Baez is currently appearing two days a week as part of the Soiled Dove, an old-fashioned circus experience in Alameda, California, where she dances and sings two songs in character. \u201cIt\u2019s wild and crazy and exhausting,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I\u2019ve always wanted to dance onstage, and it never kind of worked out. So I\u2019m working all that out now, dancing and singing and all of it, me in a blonde wig. It\u2019s one place where I really, honestly, God, forget all this shitstorm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tDuring another conversation with Rolling Stone<\/em> this past spring, Baez asserted, \u201cEnjoying yourself has become an act of resistance.\u201d Looking back on that comment a few months later, she reflects, \u201cThat\u2019s still true, but I think it\u2019s gone way beyond that now.\u00a0It\u2019s not enough. One has to start making good trouble. They say, \u2018What can I do?\u2019 You say, \u2018Go volunteer for [something],\u2019 and they say, \u2018Oh.\u2019\u00a0 I just say that we may not be able to turn the tide yet, but we can certainly save some fishes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\tLITTLE GREEN WORM: A NOTE TO THE PRESIDENT\t<\/h3>\n
\n\tBy Joan Baez<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tSince you are so comfortable
hiring people whose minds have
been by hollowed out by worms,
I\u2019ve been thinking about<\/p>\n
\n\ta little green worm that has
worked its way into
your anterior insular cortex,
the part of the brain<\/p>\n
\n\twhere empathy originates.
Empathy is the ability to understand,
feel, and share the emotions of
another person.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt is like a muscle,
which is to say:
you can develop it with practice.
The little green worm quickly devoured yours.<\/p>\n
\n\tHe then munched onward
until he came to
the prefrontal cortex,
which is involved in<\/p>\n
\n\timpulse control
and regulating social behavior.
It\u2019s meant to stop us from blurting out
vulgarities such as<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cGrab her by the pussy\u201d and
\u201cShithole countries\u201d or accusing all
Mexican immigrants of being criminals,
rapists, and drug dealers.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere is one of your outbursts however,
which remains both
unfiltered and true:
\u201cI could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue<\/p>\n
\n\tand shoot someone,
and I wouldn\u2019t lose any voters.\u201d
What\u2019s a little green worm to do
but munch on to the cerebrum,<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\twhich is the big one, responsible for thought,
language, memory, reasoning and learning,
for all the functions that make up basic
intelligence.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut oh shit: there\u2019s nothing there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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