Angst Immigration Poems

My Degree In Whining
Miracle Man
December 13th 2023

Political lies and corruption,
always cause divides.
Antisemitism is forcing us,
 into choosing sides.

Each day the wedge,
is being driven deeper.
Also each...

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As another refugee dies
camped along America's southern border 
a poor family seeks law and order
In Mexico
(In Mexico)
And the family cries.
They didn't expect to find hatred...

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I stand in the aftermath 
between the oscillations of time 
wondering idle thoughts of you

I feel my mind haunted by 
the passing moments of you
like...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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There are no heroes
……………only those who do what must be done.

They wait in pre-dawn darkness
………………for an always late bus

Find ways to make one more meal
………………….from...

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I abhor the bigotry and brutality 
that is being applied to southern refugees
seeking asylum in the United States.  
Diversity has been and continues to...

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I grip the shifting sands, the drifting dirt.
I pull the earth and let fall through these rough fingers.

I pull the power of raw nature. 
I...

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Dust
Ashes to ashes
Read as rust fine 
in dust the centuries are lost 
Tomes of history lie in disarray
far away from the terrors of the day...

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The past dreaming 
of the future 
Burnt out at last
Light pulsing into the cathode ray tubes 
the wires of difference machines 
process seconds, data, imagery...

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9 to 5 at a dead-end job, staying on someone else’s couch.
Paycheck to paycheck, house to house.
This is how I survive, this is how I...

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How will the future
mold society?
Will life be better
or get even worse?

Global warming
means climate change
melting glaciers
and rising seas.

Confronting
refugees
at borders

will love
veto

hate?


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01/05/2021


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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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When Alex was tasked to pen eight straight A’s for an animate cause

He adjusted the angle arched forth in awe and anticipated attunement 

Ached with...

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Escaping grinding poverty
And violent crimes
You left scant existence
Holding your Dad's hand
In the middle of the night
Going on a long journey
Dreaming of a free land

Miles and...

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wars drugs poverty
famine fear rape death
and degradation 
that's the impoverished world 
desperate immigrants flee

and yet we won't let them in

go die on the other side...

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