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IN OUR NAME [1]

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Date: 2025-04-07

DREAD

The churn in my stomach

will not stop.

I cannot unsee the El Salvador prison,

and men taken from our streets

Delivered into its slavery.

I dread this feeling,

Sickened as I am by images

and practice of torture

Inside that chamber of horrors.

Crafted with care in America

Is the intentional pain

And premeditated cruelty

Being performed in my name.

Snatched without warning

By men masked and nameless,

Bound and herded as are

Cattle bound for slaughter.

images I cannot unsee.

No crime has been charged.

No indictment delivered.

Guilty by tattoo.

Guilty by queerness

Guilty by association

It could be you next.

Don’t stand too close to me.

The churn in my stomach

Will not stop.

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