What is your name?
Where are you from?
How old are you?
Can you read and write?
What is the condition of your health?
What is the 4th of July?
Why are you coming to America?
No answer.

What is your name?
Where are you from?
How old are you?
Can you read and write?
What is the condition of your health?
What is the 4th of July?
Why are you coming to America?
No answer.

What is your name?
Where are you from?
How old are you?
Can you read and write?
What is the condition of your health?
What is the 4th of July?
Why are you coming to America?
No answer.

The same tolling questions are
uttered out of my pale white lips everyday.
My voice monotone like a metronome ticking monotonously.
Controlling everyone that steps through
the gate of my country.
Only some may enter.

I tear families apart.
I create tears.
I notice their torn clothing.

Everyday the same.

What is your name?
Where are you from?
How old are you?
Can you read and write?
What is the condition of your health?
What is the 4th of July?
Why are you coming to America?
Donald Hammond Alford.
London, England.
37
Yes sir.
Well. No issues.
July 4th recognized the independence of America.
For a job sir, I want to be a doctor.

The future of our country is in my hands.