“as we stand here, a five-year-old woke up in a cage”
our country
overrun
by all of the things that we don’t stand for
and we stand here
doing nothing
Erasure from https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621798823/speaker-ryan-plans-immigration-votes-amid-doubts-that-bills-can-pass
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well said!
This whole situation is so wrong. I enjoy how your pulled this out of the article, Pauletta.
Brief and powerful! Especially with the source you used.
I’ve been wanting to write about this, but can’t seem to start anything but a rant. I may have to borrow this idea of using actual articles for source material to do a short found poem.