By Karol Olesiak

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
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