“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
—Donald Trump



America I was driving when I heard you
Had died I swerved into a ditch and wept
In the dream I dreamed unconscious in the ditch

America     I dreamed you climbed from the ditch
You must believe your body is and any
Body and stood beside the ditch for eight years

Thinking     except you didn’t stand you right
Away lay down on your pale belly
And tried to claw your way back to the ditch

You right away began to wail     and weep
And gnash your teeth     my tears met yours in the ditch
America     they carry me downstream

A slave on the run from you      an Egyptian queen
Even in my dreams I’m in your dreams