Dear Mothership,
it paralyzes their country mercy i will teach them how to be
neighborly how to atomize property-
lines how to lubricate the shut mouth of a mailbox swallow
the multiverse ideas & chapters
presences & pilgrims i will say to them god’s green card did not
it extend to Egyptians were not even
the accursed permitted entrance i will say to them when blood-sashed
doors are shibboleths invocatio dei
i will say to them solemnly declare Google it then Wikipedia Rap Radar &
André Ben. taught me this alien can blend
right on in with your kin look again at the lamb’s blood & your firstborn
at the ship’s log of your manifest destiny who are you to say who must
leave who can stay when rumors of
my existence evidence man’s belief in dreams
Source: Poetry (December 2020)