Capital crosses borders freely.
Wars do too.
Environmental chaos crosses borders freely.
Marketing does too.
Drugs cross borders freely.
The drug war does too.
Think tank ideas cross borders freely.
Shit songs, shit movies do too.
All these things and more move as soaring birds
Above the piss-drawn lines on maps.
Only you, only I, only the refugee
Chased off of her land by drought and drug gangs,
Chased out of his house by hunger and threat
Does not cross borders freely
Is rebuffed, interrogated, confined in ice boxes,
And must remain in one place
As the madness descends from afar.
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