Invective!/How easy it was/for someone I knew/to call me a “Democrat baby-killer.”

How easy it has been/for someone closer than I’d like to think/to brandish these crude words/in her satisfaction/that “anchor babies” might now be kicked out.

The baby-killers among us have reached/the highest ranks; they salivate, ready/To turn back refugees/into the teeth of certain death/they channel the ship St Louis,

reminding me how more than 900 Jews/fleeing the Nazis in 1939/were forced to return/to their deaths.