Seamstress Address

why does going
have to mean divorce
Poitier, Hanna, Scott

citizen of one nation or another
must embrace one,
push the other away

what about being seamlessly joined
citizen of the world

each nation though
in spite of U.N.
or international law,
has its own statutes

states in the Unites States,
map upon the body
and upon the brain

the same for citizens
of our 700 islands

I want to come together
instead of apart


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
8:27 p.m. 07.12.07