“Nothing to me is more American than sex, money, and violence—and, as of late, one’s identity and citizenship have been scrutinized according to someone else’s rubric of what it means to be an American, or rather an American like them. This poem is an eco-anarchist response to neofascism. As a queer writer, I have always encountered oppression; my poem demands a counter-violent act more than writing a love poem. The poem moves from the ‘I,’ ‘You,’ and ‘Our’ to highlight the power one individual’s social insubordination can have.”
—C. Russell Price