Total Disaster

by Nadia Kalman

My friend’s mother thinks they’ll come across the golf course
Antifa and the migrants, all together
Heading east to steal her blood and treasure:
Her son who lives at home, her beanie horse

“Can you believe she used to be a nurse?”
We learn again the lesson:
It can take only a feather
To make a person think the worst.

Sitting bored and all alone at church
Hearing too much Spanish in the sermon
“Sure, deport them all, why not?”

Out her kitchen window, something lurches:
It’s her daughter with some unfamiliar persons 
Calling to the boy upstairs, “Come out.” 

Nadia Kalman is reading a book about Watergate to cope.