DELANEY HALL

by Roberta Batorsky




This is the emblem of the age

Children shivering all alone

Where ICE holds sway

Nothing at all for to atone

 

Five day’s hunger strike rallies the world

To Newark’s prison, a public shame

Justice, fairness, integrity hobbled

Throwing dirt on America’s name

 

Delaney was a leader of civil rights

His hall rejiggered as an infamous jail

By Trump and his pernicious acolytes

Holed up in their version of Versailles

 

Delaney, the emblem of this age

Should inspire international rage

Immigrants, fiber of American life

Uprise, uprise, uprise, uprise



Roberta Batorsky, a New Jersey poet, recently published her first book of poetry, Perihelion.

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