Trump, In Verse

If you’re a foreign student who’s expressing an opinion,
you will quickly be deported to another land’s dominion.
We’ve got freedom of expression, but it’s now been redefined:
you cannot express support in any way for Palestine.

It’s a complicated circumstance there in the Middle East,
but if you don’t think like I do? Say hello to the police.
If you’ve got a student visa, or you live here with a green card –
once you speak up in the wrong way, from this country you’ll soon be barred.

Have you gotten a tattoo, or you no habla the inglés?
Then you’d better be prepared, since there’s a chance you’ll be displaced.
You could be a Fulbright Scholar, or a medical clinician –
you’ll be gone with little sense of why you came under suspicion.

Now, of course, if you support me, then you’re free to say or do
nearly anything – regardless if it’s venal or untrue.
While our nation has a history that encourages dissent,
that has now become a crime: back where you came from you’ll be sent.

And if you think for a moment only migrants will be preyed on –
that your home or place of worship I would never stage a raid on,
and I won’t try to destroy you for your writing and/or speaking –
then you do not understand the kind of havoc I am wreaking.