…..its a foreign policy
really
slapping fences
around borders and
borders around minds
barring dissent
and barriering entry
and barricading exits
its a housing intervention
too
making everyhouse
an everydayprison
and everycitizen
an everydayjailor
and before you
tell me what its not
remember
also
that its a
communicable disease
an epidemic
epicentered in
communities
held incommunicado
in solitary confinement
for lifetimes
so when you ask
what it means
ima tellya
carceral
like cancer
is now
a society

and yet…