Hidden immigrant terrified tracking
Sweat laced panic attack medical trauma heaving
Dreams pummeling minds ancestors warning
Chemo receiving drips poisonous cure too fragile
Pregnant mothers fearing, special needs screaming
Orange survivors guaranteed
Some with flies crawling on mind walls
Tender bodies
Guided hearts
Wait and seers
Those, perhaps, with grandparents, now gone mad
Speaking of A 1966 Study
Of the Vulnerability
Of Subway Passengers in New York City
To Covert Attack with Biological Agents
Fearing, wanting to trust
Wanting to be a “good American”
But haunted
Straddling medians
Betwixt extremists chanting what cannot be known
Absolutely
Tender layers between only parts exaggerated
These are the They
These are the They
These are the They
Who should be denied healthcare
Who should be denied hospital beds
Who should be denied insurance
Who should be forced and mandated to ignore
Pro or Anti
Perhaps to
See these people
Perhaps to
Listen to these They
The complexity
Perhaps to realize exclusion
Co-ersion
Resentment
And dismissal
Will never move the needle
.
Letting Go 