Poems For Rebels

Select poems from the work of journalist, analyst and digital street philosopher Caitlin Johnstone.

Show Me An Old Rebel

Do not show me a young rebel,

whose eyes are bright

and whose tail is bushy.

Young rebels are fine and good,

but they are merely doing

what the young are meant to do.

Show me an old rebel.

One who keeps punching

when his hands are arthritic,

when her hair is white,

when his friends are all dead,

when her knees are shot,

when it hurts him to pee,

when her shoulders are so bad

that...