Natalie Scenters-Zapico - Notes on My Present: A Contrapuntal

              With statements by President Donald Trump
 
I write my body, as border between
We have some bad hombres here
this rock & the absence of water.
& we’re going to get them out.
I cut myself with a scimitar,
When Mexico sends its people,
as political documentation.
they’re not sending their best.
How do you write about the violence
They’re not sending you.
of every man you’ve ever loved?
They’re sending people
Macho, you
that have lots of problems
breathe bright in the neocolony,
& they’...