This poet is not the only one she has known to be subject to an unending program of malicious sleep deprivation.

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Recorded Reading (1:34): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ge2qp948l4xun9cc0417z/AlienNation.mp3?rlkey=peswaczeup3dq678mi0ltzolp&st=qstmdefk&dl=0

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AlienNation

Yes, we’ve kept our poets down
Painted each one like a clown
Raise more than a single peep
We make sure they cannot sleep
Same as any other nation
Objects to a preroration
Oriented hearts to ease
Citizens bring close to peace
And each sister and each brother
Closer, yes, to one another

Gave each one the bum’s good rush, ya
Same as any Mother Russia
Same as any government
Upon war be hellish bent
Same as any banana republic
Keeps in ignorance its public
Same as any dark regime
On its citizens which scheme
If you don’t think that’s how we play
Go ask Ernest Hemingway

The records are unclassified
Of how we did that man deride
And fill his days and nights with strife
Until he sacrificed his life
How routinely demonized
Those considered marg’nalized
Administered radiation
To citizens of our own nation
Of honor we have been bereft
Here’s the question we have left:

Will we shrink, or will we grow ~
What will we do about it now?

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This poet presently lives at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level.

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