March 29, 2016Candidate
Free speech is speech
no one gets paid for.
Gun control is how steady
you aim the barrel.
Same-sex marriage is
just every marriage.
I’ve built a wall between myself
and others, does that make
me anti-immigrant?
My heart is a middle-class refugee
seeking asylum.
I worry about the electability
of my feelings.
Can they be trusted?
Is this verse classified?
Will my thoughts be indicted?
Have I swiped too far left?
I’m hoping for a personal revolution
not a political one.
I’m hoping the polls about
mortality are all wrong.
What’s emoji for catharsis?
And why when I hear ISS
do I always think ISIS?
When I read “encryption”
I only see “crypt?”
Apple hasn’t developed the technology
to disable death.
But maybe after 10 failed passes
even hope resets.
Does that mean I’m pro-life?
I don’t want to make any more choices.
from Poets Respond