The written version of this poem has disappeared from this blog.
read this poem at Maxine’s blog HERE
find more poetry, essays, and visual poetry by Maxine Beneba Clarke HERE
her work can also be found at, among others, OVERLAND and CORDITE POETRY REVIEW.
Bonnie McClellan-Broussard 
Thank you for this powerful, necessary poem which reminds us why poets are the world’s “unacknowledged legislators.”