Business Immigration Poems

I didn’t know if I was going to make it through the night, my feet were as cold as ice, my heart was where it...

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they made shreres with holes through the center
and painted symbols of wheat on them
and made large doll like figures
with wig like hair
that were used to...

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Everything has a specific time to make the universe divine; everything has a specific time to make the universe strong, everything has a specific time...

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How important is 
It to know your history? 
African's Hidden treasures
        Right 
        and
     Wrong 
      Eyes"
Some  bantus 
Fought each other for lands 
From eighteenth...

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Thanks for your goodness
Does it do good?
Since Hitler, we allow refuge
But was it from guilt?
Today, dark seek Places of White
Refusing to work for change
Their leaders...

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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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People are becoming a tribe of nomadic
Who emigrate and become fanatic,
Hoping they will get a peaceful haven,
They have become completely raven,

Wishing for a cozy Lifestyle...

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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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1886 
Frightened immigrants
holding hands

Spoke little English
two suitcases
strange tongues, smells
cornucopia of sounds
crowds, horses, wagons
tenement apartment
little heat

1909
Their own home
central heating
learned English
Model T Ford
business, savings
four children
daughter in college

Dauntless citizens
holding...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of...

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I see on the news that some wish
not to teach their children English,
and this, to me, makes little sense,
makes me wonder about the parents.
Why, if...

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Ask nurturers,
parents,
librarians,
nurses,
maybe even a doctor or two,

What's required for my long-term commitment
to re-invest
for necessary long-term resilience?

The answer,
health,
seems sufficient
and yet not the sacred purpose
for resonating my...

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Police sirens are blaring
Outside my tuckered apartment walls.
The red and blue lights consume my room,
Provoking me – threatening me. 
The sound – deafening.
It is the...

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A new immigrant now comes:
I see him on our streets,
I see him on the factory floor,
I see him at an old friend's desk--
How I would...

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I don't want Aliens
buying U.S. business,
but please stand back
while I buy up all your cheapest busyness
for International Made In America Trumpism.

Colonialism,
like Trumpism,
should work only one...

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