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Poetry of Issue 9: Liberal, Kansas

Liberal, Kansas

They were gonna kill Somalis

‘cos who’s better at immigrant rage

than jerk-off white guys

goaded by God w/guns?

Pending domestic charges and

’scripts they can’t refill ‘cos

the God-damm government checks

ain’t in.

 

They were gonna kill Somalis ‘cos

that’s what patriots do: Kill those who don’t

look like them. Talk like them.

Believe like them. Eat n drink n

piss m fuck like them.

 

They were gonna kill Somalis ‘cos

they’re douche-bags and

America’s like that now:

Ignorant. Inhospitable. A backwash town

on a washed-out map. Lined w/refugees

coast to coast.

Mike Jurkovic

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