Déjà Vu in the Homeland
Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
(Anthony Russo / For The Times )
They taught us in school that a Red
Was a person one really should dread:
They spied on one’s mail,
Banished suspects to jail —
Perhaps we’d be better off dead.
The author was poet laureate of Louisiana from 2011 to 2013.
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