“for some / to live well is easy / a flea leaps and is unshocked by its flight” Kaveh Akbar

    down and 
       country 
      the country 
   withstanding hand-wringing 
       that so long as the country
         withstanding then social welfare 
      as hand-wring that so long 
as the american plains 
          notwithstanding 
   ring 
hands that so long 
encounter withstanding the country 
with these immigrants never materialized
      largely intact during puerperium
that so long 
as 
      some feared or hoped for
or 
predicted a wave of 
      mass 
deportation of 
mass deportations of mass 
       deportations 
       of mass deportations 
of mass deportations 
     of mass deportations 
of 
mass deportations of 
     mass