Dear Mothership,

it paralyzes their country    mercy    i will teach them    how to be

                                               

                                              neighborly    how to atomize    property-

lines    how to lubricate the shut mouth    of  a mailbox    swallow

                                              the multiverse   ideas & chapters

presences & pilgrims    i will say to them    god’s  green card    did not

                                              it extend to Egyptians   were not even

the accursed permitted entrance    i will say to them    when blood-sashed

                                              doors are shibboleths   invocatio dei

i will say to them   solemnly declare Google it    then Wikipedia Rap Radar &

                                              André Ben. taught me this   alien can blend

right on in with your kin   look again    at the lamb’s blood    & your firstborn

at the ship’s log    of your manifest destiny    who are you to say who must

                                              leave who can stay    when rumors of

my existence    evidence man’s belief    in dreams