No Kings: How It Went

After the No Kings speeches were done on Saturday, they announced that the march would be forming up, so I asked my compatriots if they wanted to march and they shook their heads no, but I wanted to march, mostly because I’d been standing in one place for an hour and a half but also because the power of a demonstration is really only felt if you can block off a few streets so I put out my lower lip and downcast my eyes until my old friend said, “you want to march, right?” and I said yes but you shouldn’t agree just because I’m pouting and she said, and I will remember these words for the rest of my days on the planet, she said, “POUTING IS YOUR SUPERPOWER” and so we marched for several blocks, and I fixed my friend’s wacky sandwich sign a dozen times, and we met up with my beloved old man who was waiting for us in the truck several blocks along the way to spirit us home.