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Dear ICE

I mean obviously you can 
break the law but I can’t
so what if I park legally
and holler at you so long as
I don’t call you a fat boi?
No? Not even if I promise?
Maybe just my bumper stickers
say things you don’t like
on a public street? I guess not.
So how about I sit in my car
at home and scream
with helplessness and rage
if I leave the windows up?
What if I just sit there real quiet
but think angry thoughts?
No? What if I sit on my couch
with my cat and write a poem?
Oh that’s right. You kill poets.
What if I decide you are right
about everything? Except
attesting to something and not
believing it might kill me,
might give me a fact aneurysm,
cognitive dissonance made flesh,
a little emotional infarction,
a pulmonary symbolism? Is it
o.k. if I die quietly? Yes? O.k.