Battery Cages
speech salted with
Hitler references
Close the borders—
stop the immigrants—
so I can eat steak! you say
trading smiles with you
your shaved heads fuzzy and
colorless like chickens raised in
battery cages
this factory farm nation
grew you
assembly line humans
you’ve staked out your piece of this
prison neither recognizing nor
resenting the bars
/or the owner\
ready to peck if only you hadn’t been
de-beaked
we’re the same breed but you terrify me
my cells saturated with the sweat and
saliva of black and brown lovers
the flock of you
jovially saunter off
point made
fear induced
i wish i could shed my /white\
skin or at least
disown you