The New New Colossus
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
--Emma Lazarusunless you are Cuban,
we don't want Cubans.
or Mexicans.
no, if you are
Cuban or Mexican, you can just
stay where you are.
we've got enough already,
thank you.
actually, if you are
any kind of Latino,
you can go ahead
and just stay home.
and, if you are Mediterranean
or African
or Asian or –gasp–
Middle Eastern
then you are also
very much not welcome.
no matter how tired
or poor,
no matter how huddled,
no matter how much
you yearn to
breathe free.-published in James River Poetry Review