Borders

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.