A nursery horror story

Sat., Aug. 11, 2018

My husband and I have been feeling sorrow and anger over Trump’s border policy. As an expression of these feelings my husband came up with the idea and I wrote the poem based on a familiar nursery rhyme:

Humpty Trumpty sat on His Wall.

Humpty Trumpty had a great fall.

And all his lackeys and all the ICE men

Could not put all those families together again.

We are having a difficult time understanding how anyone, especially a parent, could promote such a cruel and inhumane policy. I say he “had a great fall” because I do believe Trump is going to suffer severe consequences because of this policy.

Jo Stowell

Spokane

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