Cattle Cars, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

The scars of wars past, memories don’t last
They are really scabs, again once torn, all must warn
They are rising again, pustules, ready to burst
Clackety clack, down, the track, the past is back

There is no Costello standing next to this Abbott
He finds it funny to use humans as a marketing ploy
No longhorns in the lone star state, he gets joy
Out of shipping them off and dumping them like garbage

How does he manage, to sleep at night, it’s not right
His rhetoric, makes me sick, political satisfaction
He makes quick, “illegals”, “invasion”, “caravan”
Ships them off throughout the land

And when they get there, nowhere to land
Stranded on the street Greg treats them
Like rotting meat, dumped in the rain
Heat and cold, with nothing to eat

Why stop there if your dirty work is fair
Vilify those “wetbacks” those “chinks”
Those “beaners”, and this couldn’t be meaner
Who is on first? Governor Abbott a bottom feeder

I hate to tell you this Greg, you slimy awful dreg
They shouldn’t have to beg, for dignity, for survival
Nor should anyone grovel, to a bully like you
History is repeating, and you are leading the charge

Clickity clack, the flakes fall from the fascist smoke stack
The solution to the “Hispanic” question is right on track
It started with condemning our first President who was black
This evil tactic will get no slack from the sane

We will condemn it as a bane, an infection of the brain
Hate will never gain ground while compassion is around
Clickity clack, Auschwitz is the sound, of ignorance
Petulance spreads around, our voices must be loud

This will not be allowed. The hallowed words renowned
“Bring us your tired huddled masses” “E-Pluribus Unum”
The GOP needs glasses, they are the German Sheppard
Gangly snarled teeth, muzzled they should be

Least we repeat history. Let this, oh let this never be.
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Everyone gets that we can’t let unlimited people in, and yes, many will be deported. But the word choices by the GOP are very dangerous scapegoating and vilification, and very fascist in tone. I used the slurs in my poem, as a very blunt sarcastic way of saying, “Hey asshole GOP why stop at “illegal” and “invasion” and “caravan”, you might as well call them those other words too, because that is how you sound to sane people.

Hispanics/Latinos are not an invading army with weapons, they are not cockroaches. They are your fellow human beings. While we have to deport many, we should not talk about our fellow humans as if they are monsters. They should not be shipped across the country. Lied to by Texas authorities and Governor Greg Abbott letting them think where they are going is going to be better conditions, only to drop them off with no shelter no food and all for a bullshit political stunt to gain party support.

We should be funding more boarder agents, and more processing centers at the border. Not bullshit vanity walls that don’t stop anything. We should always give them the dignity of shelter and food while they are here, even if we have to deport them. They are not cattle and they are not an infestation. THEY ARE YOUR FELLOW HUMANS.

Fuck you Greg Abbott for being a total toolbag.