BLIZZARD

Wri en by Jackson Willis

Illustrated by Harper White

In this cento poem I meld shards of OutKast’s “Elevators (Me and You),” John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Coun y Roads,” and John Crowe Ransom’s “Grace.” is poem draws out the lines of so rebellion in each piece, magni es them, and directs them to Denver’s West Virginia, where 10,000 unionizing coal miners led by Bill Blizzard revol d just over a century ago in the Ba le of Blair Moun in.

Even the rats know of deaths, there is a choice: one for the money, the dollar a day two for the show the decency of blood start of something growing in the hour a er dinner more than ankle-high a map om Virginia, pain painted on the sky, blazing moonshine thrown like Hail Marys, miners undid the coupling chain in the mud marching dus in the mornin’ loot blue water to last mis taste of hunger lay down neck-to-neck. check to see the laughing one smoking cruel es eely they pay dangerous customers take killing to the ridge the dead big boys indus y ain’t gon’ stop older than God so we con nue

This poem was written for the on-campus protest on February 23, 2023 on Bush Lawn, where Rollins students gathered together to reject the state of Florida’s attacks on personal and academic freedom.

Written by Liam King Designed by Peyton Poitras

swallowing dust mites from the rugs under which you sweep us —— but we are not afraid.

warming ourselves only in the glow of our histories, which you set ablaze —— but we are not afraid.

and when you outlaw our identities, remember that we’re here — unafraid; that we’re buried in milk cans,1 that we are scratched in the walls of this place: unremovable g

1 References the Oneg Shabbos archive, which was a communal archive of Jewish life and thought compiled during the Holocaust and stored in milk cans.

FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY - UNFILLED / UNCHANGED [p.5]

[1] Photo by Valeria Smirnova on Unsplash.

FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY - DISNEY BABY TO DISNEY ADULT [p.13]

[1 Best, Amy L. “Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960. By Nicholas Sammond. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. X 472.” The American Journal of Sociology 112.1 (2006): 341-42. Web.

[2] “Disneyland Resort Grad Nite: Disney Youth Programs.” Disney Imagination Campus, https://www.disneycampus.com/programs/field-trips/dlr/grad-nite-disneyland/.

[3] Levine, Elana. “Fractured Fairy Tales and Fragmented Markets.” Television & New Media 6.1 (2005): 71-88. Web.

[4] “Disney Targets a Growing Market.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 8 Feb. 2011, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/08/parents-and-parenting-disney-channel.

[5] “Disney Baby.” The Shorty Awards, https://shortyawards.com/8th/disney-baby-2.

[6] Hunter-Jones, Philippa. “Changing Family Structures and Childhood Socialisation: A Study of Leisure Consumption.” Journal of Marketing Management 30.15-16 (2014): 1533-553. Web.

[7] Michaelsen, Shannen. “Photos: Seven Hour Wait for Pop Eats! at 2022 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts as Guests Line up for Figment Popcorn Bucket.” WDW News Today, 14 Jan. 2022, https:// wdwnt.com/2022/01/photos-wait-for-figment-popcorn-bucket-is-up-to-seven-hours-at-2022-epcot-international-festival-of-the-arts/.

[8] Tumin, Remy. “Disney’s Splash Mountain Closed. Now Superfans Are Selling the Water.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/disney-splashmountain-closes.amp.html.

[9] “A Quote by Walt Disney Company.” Goodreads, Goodreads, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/62764-to-all-that-come-to-this-happy-place-welcome-disneyland.

FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY - OF TEARS AND MAR [p.20]

[1] US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “How Much of the Ocean Have We Explored?” NOAA’s National Ocean Service, January 1, 2009. https://oceanservice.noaa. gov/facts/exploration.html.

[2] Snyder, Gary. “The World Is Places.” Ellen’s Old Alchemical Press, 1990.

[3] Thoreau, Henry David. Walking. Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Dillard, Annie. “Living Like Weasels.” HarperCollins, 1982.

[7] Ibid.

[8] Ibid.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Snyder, Gary. “The World Is Places.” Ellen’s Old Alchemical Press, 1990.

[11] Ibid.

[12] Ibid.

FOOTNOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY - ADDICTION IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL [p.23]

[1] “Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons by Florida Medical Examiners: 2021 Interim Report.” Florida Department of Law Enforcement, May 2022; Grimming, Erin-Knight. “DEA Miami Field Division Warns of Alarming Increase in Suspected Fentanyl-Related Overdoses in Florida.” Drug Enforcement Administration, 15 July 2022; Moody, Ashley. “Re: Declare Fentanyl as Weapon of Mass Destruction.” Office of the State Attorney of Florida, 18 July 2022.

[2] “Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.” Center for Disease Control, May 2019.

[3] “Drugs Identified in Deceased Persons by Florida Medical Examiners: 2020 Interim Report.” Florida Department of Law Enforcement, April 2021.

[4] “The Changing Overdose Crisis in Central Florida: A Community Needs Assessment.” Project Opioid, 29 November 2021.

[5] Popp, Evan. “Every Overdose is a Policy Failure: Mainers in Recovery Ask Legislature to End Punitive Drug Laws.” Maine Beacon, 9 June 2021.

[6] “Harm Reduction Principles.” National Harm Reduction Coalition, 2020.

[7] Ibid.

[8] Cadler, Rich. “Florida AG Ashley Moody: NYC Health Dept. Ads Empowering ‘Safe’ Drug Use are ‘Deadly.’” The New York Post, 4 June 2022.

[9] “Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.” Center for Disease Control, May 2019.

[10] “The Facts About Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction.” Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, vol. 14, no. 4442, 2014; “Programs: Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT).” Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 25 July 2022.

[11] Bailey, Genie, et al. “Perceived Relapse Risk and Desire for Medication Assisted Treatment among Persons Seeking Inpatient Opiate Detoxification.” Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 302-305, 2013.

[12] Lopez, German. “She wanted addiction treatment. She ended up in the relapse capital of America.” VOX, 2 March 2020.

[13] “Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.” Center for Disease Control, May 2019.

[14] “Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opiate Dependence—It’s Not ‘Giving Drugs to Drug Addicts.’” American Nursing Association, 2021.

[15] Flanagan, Jake. “The Surprising Failures of 12 Steps.” The Atlantic, 25 March 2014.

[16] Lopez, German. “She wanted addiction treatment. She ended up in the relapse capital of America.” VOX, 2 March 2020.

[17] Krishnan, Manisha. “Republicans Want to Declare Fentanyl a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction.’ That’s a Terrible Idea.” Vice News, 21 September 2022.