Fraiku: Campus

Posted on 2024/04/26 by Bartholomew Barker

Listen the protestors,
unkempt, thin and idealistic,
they are usually right.

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
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13 Responses to Fraiku: Campus

  2. ivor20 says:
    2024/04/26 at 21:28

    Like candles in the rain …

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  3. Sunra Rainz says:
    2024/04/27 at 15:22

    Damn straight!

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  4. Dawn Pisturino says:
    2024/04/29 at 12:03

    No, not always right! Some don’t even know what they’re protesting! Some are paid to scream, yell, and jump up and down.

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    • Bartholomew Barker says:
      2024/04/29 at 20:36

      Note, I wrote “usually” not “always”. Most know what they’re protesting and few are paid. (Get any sufficiently large crowd and you’ll find the inarticulate and sometimes a few infiltrators who really are getting paid.) The vast majority are reacting to injustice just like during the civil rights protests of the 1960’s and the anti-war protests since Vietnam. While I was too young for those movements, I’m proud of all the protests I’ve attended in my life and feel vindicated by history for each.

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  5. thelongview says:
    2024/05/01 at 06:59

    Yes they are! We owe them a lot!

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