Border Burlesque

Milton Jordan

January 21, 2024

Stars of their own personal podcasts,

more prone to posture than to policy

politicians of a certain stripe travel 

at public expense to border crossing points

in cities with major media outlets

where, in carefully formatted pronouncements

they declare deep concern for the failure

of opponents’ policies, and propose  

their own programs in barest outline

focused primarily on increased use 

of life-threatening border barriers.

Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He co-edited the first Texas Poetry Assignment anthology, Lone Star Poetry, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022.