Originally published in The Lake, April 2015 issue. Originally written at Union Station in early 2015, exact date unknown. An Interlingua version later appeared in the March-April 2018 issue of Panorama in Interlingua. This poem also appears in Treason Cantos: Poems 2014-2017.
there are a bunch of people
standing around
in union station
doing nothing
some of them
have on yellow vests
that read
POLICE
they keep telling
the people who have no vests
they have to move
the area is closed
that is their job
to make life
just that much harder
for the unvested