Down in Texas it was Juneteenth
As the southern border patrol kept busy
Arresting the parents and seizing
The kids. Too much irony is dizzying.
North of that patrol's northern border
Shone a quiet, sunny day at the lake
Where schoolchildren sorted
Stones from a narrow beach by the bay,
Part of a classroom history project
To celebrate aboriginal peoples.
Which stones to choose, which to reject?
One girl, more interested in beetles,
Wandered outside the boundary
Set by the teachers to keep track.
An older girl spotted her wandering
And, just in time, led her back.
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