NVN Monday: DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS DEAD
by Marissa Glover
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That is the truest thing you will read all day. Some people mourn others will rejoice some write about legacy others, swaths of destruction. It happens every time. Rush Limbaugh, bin Laden— the women/witches at Salem. What you see always depends on where you stand. Just ask the reporters taking notes at Calvary. There were women crying at the foot of the cross; there were soldiers gambling for garments. If you’re looking for truth, you will not find it here. Not even consensus. Except Dianne Feinstein is dead. Be grateful. Elvis and Tupac can’t even get that much. Witnesses of the same car crash offer cops different details… Who is right? It doesn’t matter. Everything goes into the report. And someday it will be you, likely not in the news cycle because you’re not famous. The only people invited to speak at your funeral will have something good to say. But there will always be others, ready with their own story. The only truth: you are dead.
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Marissa Glover lives in Florida, dodging storms and swatting bugs. Her poetry collection Let Go of the Hands You Hold was released by Mercer University Press in 2021. Box Office Gospel was published by Mercer in 2023. Follow her on X (Twitter) at @_MarissaGlover_.