It is unknown
where Iraq would ever
have gotten the idea
to ban US citizens
from entering their country.
Certainly the Iraqi parliamentary panel's
use of the word "reciprocal"
would bring no clues.
As an incidental fact
it should be noted
that the only families
at risk of being torn apart
are from countries
where the President
has no hotels or golf courses
which is damning
but also in a roundabout way
a transformer of the Trump Organization
into an unwieldy
blunt
and obnoxious tool
for Trump's accidental
and coincidental
and purely self-interested
sense of diplomacy.
This poem © 2017 Emily Cooper
