A War
My messages ping
30, 40 times a day-
ICE agents spotted.
In store parking lots
outside schools, among tourists
riverside downtown.
Eyeballing, taking anyone brown.
Middle of the night
family sleep shattered as a
helicopter lands.
Kids don't understand
the zip ties around shaking hands,
their parents vanished.
the working folks who
spend money, pay bills, dream, hope -
painted as monsters.
Painted as monsters
while masked invaders point guns
in a war of their own creation.