In Response to Remarks by Ryan Walters in his Introduction of Recommendations by the Oklahoma Advisory Committee on Founding Principles

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When the absence of a thing
becomes a thing,
white men in suits
in smoke-filled rooms
write patchwork policies
to please the deities
of each man’s private hell.

When the absence of a thing
becomes a thing,
wide avenues
of thought are then
collapsed, neutrality
is turned to enmity,
and mathematics fails.

When the absence of a thing
becomes a thing,
the tenets of
your foes are seen
as truth, and colorblind
law-making as a kind
of bias, and corrupt.

A response to remarks reported in Church & State, v. 76 no. 11, Dec. 2023, p. 7