XENOPHOBIC PRONOUNS
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BY: Keith H. Seymour
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I, me are from here.
You, he, and she
Are from over...there.
Pronouns...replacing nouns… in a non-pro way.
All those other people
Different from you, me, us...are unwelcome to stay.
Irish immigrants were once similarly treated.
“Irish Need Not Apply!”
At such discriminatory notices, the American Government
Turned a blind eye.
Even so-called political leaders proclaimed
“We want no drunken Irish Micks!”
Even Californians socially persecuted
People the termed
Dustbowl “Okie Hicks.”
Once, we tore a country’s physical wall down.
Now, physical and psychological walls
Globally-go up.
Once, we cheered “Solidarity,” and our African Sisters and brothers
When “Apartheid” was forced to its end.
Yet, many of the same people of then cheered
Now, seem to endorse a more Xenophobic trend.
I,and you, We and them.
Together, they compliment differences,
and create us.
Yet, used as “opposing antonyms.”
Create a xenophobic fuss.
