immigration

What Kind of Country

The Constitution
A grand response to the ancient notion
Of democracy

Preamble
Principles
And rationale
And then how to operate a nation

Amendments
Laws to address exigent
Inequalities

And is all this worth defending

It’s worth repeating and
Defending

We could say
Defending to the last
We could say
Defending for the first

If the first is a child
If the first is First Family
Is the first was a slave
If the first
Lives and by living
Is mistreated

That’s the first
She is the first
And all
Who by birth and by the way
Are here

Only one of us was here
To begin with
The rest of us have
Come in waves
With each wave unwelcome

Scaring
The preceding wave as
A single ocean
Never acts

C L Couch

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