détournement of a future profile of an imaginary border documentary

By Karol Olesiak

Image of a globe showing Europe and northern Africa.

do you qualify: 
familiar natural citizen? 
conditional permanent 
advisor resident.

–proper border
jumping ability–
–proper border 
jumping ability–

document opinion, 
overstay visa
green card holding 
sponsor, resident 

greek legalese 
seeking authoritarian 
status, ringing 
applicant beneficiary.  

naturalizes fraudulent 
shaming ritual
typical presence 
hidden homeland

proper border 
jumping ability.
gain exception 
public benefit

temporary overstaying  
permission, 
otherwise, obtain 
crossing proof,

–proper border
jumping ability–
–proper border 
jumping ability–

individual immigrant
port of entry invoice.
legal neglect malaise 
resident paralysis

entail accessible 
adjustment– 
fiancée tourist 
business visitor–

deports bachelor 
coed scholar… 
informal economy 
of territory:

proper border
jumping ability–
action arrival 
asylees deferred 

relative petition 
blanket requirement 
denaturalizing fraudulent 
quotations

deepens ancestral 
demographic lag
pasty advantage
skewing composition

lasting merit 
favoritism category
sculptor shaping 
fitness appeal.

abrupt persistence 
period migration 
daisy chain for 
anchoring babies–

fiancée tourist 
business visitor–
deports bachelor 
coed scholar… 

existential genius visa 
carting object
sterilizing intellect 
nadir testing 

quotients. maslow 
hierarchy mirrors
shit-hole logician 
acme rhetoric: 

proper border 
jumping ability
of the framers 
erasure mystic

criminality crossing 
climax borders
undulating zenith
iterating selection

loneliness desiring 
institutional belonging
clocking impossibly 
subjective alien 

residual oversight 
overstay valuation 
mismeasured hominid 
deservingness

spacial amnesiac 
powder assimilation
border governor 
optimizing outgrowth

–proper border  
jumping ability–
–proper border
jumping ability–


Karol Olesiak is a queer, disabled, award-winning poet, writer, and activist. Karol is also the editor of www.soldiersforthecause.org, a veterans antiwar blog that started as an affinity group for Occupy Wall Street. Karol has two chapbooks: The Airplane Game, available from Moonstone Press, and Saturday Morning Crusades, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in September 2026. www.karololesiak.com

Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash