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a poem by Meeko Israel
accordion fold pages with hand-drawn new york city skyline and vellum overlay with typewriter-typed words
the book
the author
“Immigration” is a poem written by Meeko Israel, a longstanding resident of Oberlin, OH, the eponymous town surrounding Oberlin College. While I was a student at the college, my bookbinding class partnered with Meeko to create artist books from his poetry. Read more about Meeko and his life here.
the poem
humble humble humble humble eat some humble humble humble eat your humble pie humble humble humble humble eat some humble pie shove it in your face creative non-native using her money her body to become a citizen sitting on her island imagining what it is to what it is to what what what it is to what it is to what what what it is to live in a nation where she is truly free in her country she is only free inside her imagination immigration imagination immigration the new york city streets are paved with gold at least that's what she was told who? who who are they? they are the folks who went before her who she knew actually made it on an airline ticket no more slave steps her friend wrote her in a letter that times that time that that many times that abroad were much much better much than they than they were in the islands the u.s. the u.s.a. the u.s. the u.s.a. actually fed her until she found one of the three jobs she now has yeah, she got three jobs quick, fast, and in a hurry because because they say because most yankees don't even want one they just they just like to sit on their ass and have fun but still there is this matter of immigration immigration imagination immigration