they decided to relent
not out of justice
not out of shame
but for optics
a PR gesture
to cover the fact
that they’d been shipping people
to weird foreign gulags
no due process
no sunlight
just
paperwork
and silence
and if you said
they were just a bunch of bile
no brains
a Steven Miller clone
in the boots he wants owned
they’d fire you
from ABC News
suspend your account
and laugh while they do it
this isn’t a poem for likes.
it’s for the skater who didn’t flinch.
it’s for the fourth grader ICE took.
it’s for everyone who’s sick of pretending this is fine.
“today is that day”
a rage poem in the shape of a warning.
#NoKings #AbolishICE #PoetryAsResistance #BurnTheWaymos #NeverAgainLOL #Decolonize #HumanCenteredNotMachineBuilt #GreenJewel
Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)