Political Poem: If You Could Time Travel, by Nazani Cassidy

would you kill Hitler? My list is longer
than yours. My best friends
dad, Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger.

Live a little. Tap the portal doors three times
and someone will come take you away. Take it
I think we can find him. The Impaler, The Terrible.

Bundy. I finally bought a switchblade. God, it feels
so good to love you like this. You’re so warm. Alive
just maybe, still sweating. The Young Turks, Aliyev, Erdoğan.

Again, again. Please make it worth something. I saw them
begging for flour today. There is no more food on the shelves
and he has never had to ask. Netenyahu, from Philadelphia. Alive.

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