Incoming Incurables

This story is about my community poem

I tell stories from the front and back lines of the newsroom. This story is about my community poem.

Incoming Incurables

First, they came for the politicians

And I did not speak out

Because I do not belong to a party

Then they came for disabled journalists

And I did not speak out

Because my disability is invisible

Then they came for the teachers

And I did not speak out

Because I was not smart enough

Then they came for the white women

And I did not speak out

Because newsrooms would notice

Then they came for Wikipedia

And I yelled out

Because Wikimedians are my people

Then they tried to come for me

And there was no one left to recruit

To come to my community

Wikipedia Day 2026 was postponed out of an abundance of caution amid an epic snow day. I planned to read this poem to my fellow Wikipedians.

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Spoil Freddy