(01 June 2020 Tear Gassing, D.C.)

‪I read her tweet;‬
‪I think‬ —
‪
prophetic — this email
‪woman, turned down
‪ for what
‪we know ‬
‪
he aspires to be —‬
‪fascist. ‬

Brian Vlasak, MFA, PhD is a disabled essayist and thinker living in Salem, Massachusetts. Dr. Vlasak‘s work has been published in ‘Coffin Bell,’ Paragon Press’s ‘Echo: A Journal of Nonfiction,’ ‘Columbia Journal,’ and is forthcoming this in fall’s ‘Saranac Review’. They unwind by losing games of Overwatch.