Today my friend gave me
blue and yellow ribbons
to pin on my jacket.
Two to hand out.
*
The war grows desperate.
Compassion for the suffering Ukrainians
battles with my smoldering anger
for the attention and support
given to that country
of white-skinned Europeans.
*
Yes, says our president,
we will take in 100,000 refugees.
*
People fleeing El Salvador
are turned away–
South Sudan, Syria, Myanmar,
Congo, Nigeria, Yemen,
Afghanistan, Eritrea—
all in states of war,
10,000 or more
deaths this year
in each country.
*
Look in the mirror with wide eyes.
Who cries on the other side of the wall?
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