There is justice until
it meets injustice,
tyranny until
stopped by bravery,
refusal, non-violent
rebellion, insurrection,
the big broad fat no.
Now, I am calling
all citizens, migrants,
the documented,
to come out
to the square
to link hands
and wait for
the ICE Man
to come, and ask
the masked avenger
in aviator glasses:
what America
do you represent?
What laws
are you imposing?
And, by the way,
the undocumented
among us
have been advised
not to show up
for your court appointments.
Indran Amirthanayagam writes a Substack. His publications include El bosque de deleites fratricidas ( RIL Editores), Seer (Hanging Loose Press),The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil), Powèt Nan Pò A: Poet of the Port (Mad Hat), and Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (Broadstone Books). He is the translator of Kenia Cano’s Animal For The Eyes (Dialogos Books) and Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books). He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube, and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.
