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The closest I’ve felt to safety was hanging with my cousins or being by my older sisters’ side[s]. Even then, I felt danger huffing about, stalking me. As a child whose parents suffered premature deaths due to America’s inadequate healthcare and mental health systems, I’m often thinking about children and how they are wrestled down by adult failures. The world’s cruelty shows itself to children through adults, even before they learn words like <em>war</em>, <em>ceasefire</em>, and later, <em>genocide</em>. I believe we owe children a world that loves them, and we must struggle for it at any cost.” <br><em>—W. J. 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How </span><br><span class="long-line">could we ever be patriots? </span><br><span class="long-line">My father is my flag. </span><br><span class="long-line">The national anthem is </span><br><span class="long-line">every word, every single word </span><br><span class="long-line">my mother could not whisper— </span><br><span class="long-line">could not say, </span><br><span class="long-line">could not say: </span><br><span class="long-line">her father colonized her. </span><br><span class="long-line">Made her mother nasty with jealousy. </span><br><span class="long-line">Could not say: she can’t stay </span><br><span class="long-line">In this world of touching. </span><br><span class="long-line">It maims. </span><br><span class="long-line">It elects evil. </span><br><span class="long-line">It is two gendered. </span><br><span class="long-line">It kneels on Sunday. </span><br><span class="long-line">The Lord is </span><br><span class="long-line">American & </span><br><span class="long-line">aims His rifle </span><br><span class="long-line">at us, His children </span><br><span class="long-line">once beggars </span><br><span class="long-line">rise into guerrillas.</span></p></div> <div class="field field--field_credit"><p>Copyright © 2025 by W. 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