Resolve

This collection of poems reflects upon the years between 2016 and 2021. This time was marked by the election of Donald Trump to the office of President. He won office by vowing to "build a wall," "drain the swamp," and generally, "Make America Great Again." President Trump''s reliably callous treatment of race- and human-relations ensured that news and social media would be consistently awful.

During these years, all forms of media were flooded with incidents of police wielding undue force, brutalizing, degrading and killing black and brown people. Millions of guns continued to be sold each year with sales rocketing every time there was a school shooting or another cause for national alarm. Children labelled "illegal immigrants'''' were interned at the Mexican border.

While the number of racist white massecurists raged across the nation - in churches, schools, theaters, and elsewhere - Muslims were banned from entering the United States because th