The train is parked in Harlem
where a desperate portion
of Trump’s thousands are now kept
in confusion, doubt and
heartbroken tragedy:
a trauma that will haunt them
for all of their days.
Is this how they were shipped here?
In crowded fear drenched train cars?
Where have I heard that before?
His overcompensating tower
shadows the city,
forever tainting the old neighborhood
of black spanish jazz renaissance…
How many other Cotton Clubs
cross red, white and blue
are infected with his orange sacrilege?
Written by Jason Wright
July 2, 2018
Poem written but untitled on July 2, 2018.
Title given July 11, when Green Day’s “American Idiot” single was reported to have re-entered British charts in response to Trump’s upcoming visit.