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POEM: How To Make An America

How To Make An America

• 1 part genocide
• 1 part slavery
• 1 part apartheid
• 1 part supremacy

Heat for 400 years
in a pressure cooker,
until the steam
escapes the valve.
Then, holding
the cooker at arm’s length,
carry it to a bombed-out
hospital or school,
set it in the foyer,
take 20 paces back,
wait.

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6 November 2024
Charlottesville, VA

Published in My poems Poetry Politics & Activism

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