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El Paso
The chubby woman in a blue Pontiac Jerked up alongside our country’s curb Where members of conflicted rallies stepped Placarding decision street disturbed In modern planned parents' hood. One protester crossed our line, the divide To ask this distraught lady, "What do you need?" Bordering near to hysterical, she yelled, “You’re wrong!” her face taut and Yanked back from that walled cleft. With drowning eyes, she leaned over and shouted, “I wish I’d never been born.” So much for refugee'd ‘boarders’ And humans backwards wet with rivers Walled out from so many of the rest of us. Then that woman jammed her shift's gear And sped away, not even glancing over At Trump's build that wall or down To her remaining little child next to her, Confused, afraid, and missing her seat belt. --Dan Wilcox First pub. in Unlikely Stories IV in different form Posted by Daniel Wilcox at 9:19 AM Labels: abortion, ambiguity, borders, Build the Wall, confused, criminals, debacle, El Paso, immigration, immoral, planned parenhood, political, protesters, rivers, Trump rallies, U.S. First, unequal, unjust |