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I don’t want to be part of this nation-state
one I am not from
one where the people from here
get disappointed if you didn’t go to school in the area

One, where even people who are from here
but don’t go to the right school in the area
don’t get attention because they don’t have people in high places

It isn’t in their manicured lawn of roses that their landscaper maintains

It’s like there everywhere here, I suppose
but here, since I am not from this spot
I don’t want to be counted in your numbers, deemed a certain class, labeled with a certain intelligence, or lack thereof, because you never left your
trove of trees planted in 1963.

Thank you.