day TWO HUNDRED and SEVEN

A Brief History of Alternative Facts

The girl and her brother were raised as equals.
Religion made people kind.

Columbus discovered America.
Guns don’t kill.

Beaten children asked for it.
Everyone wanted the black dolls.

He never had sexual relations with that woman.
Sandra Bland got a ticket and went home.

A fool and his money can’t buy the White House.
More people read poetry than get raped.

The protestors didn’t throw rocks;
that was confetti.

If they’re sent to prison
it will be an alternative heaven.

--Alison Stone