my country
my country
what has become of thee
of our children
who is left to educate them
when their state no longer
cares…dares
the people our people are not
just made up of old white men
our people our beautiful people
are black, spanish, asian
every shade of beauty
what has happened to our middle class
who now pay their mortgage, barely
in taxes to a president
an old white rich man
with dementia
a so called man
a grifter, golfer
and a hater of all things
poor
and all you fools voted for him
in fear of a black woman
ENJOY!
Contraband Marriage, traveling along the hemline of loving after incarceration, is a love story written in lyric and free form, set in reality with a different ever after.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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