The Importance of Empathy in Los Angeles

Long Beach is a city that has been cracking down on policing on house people and simultaneously not providing basic living accommodations to residents. I was like really struck by the irony of this at the time in that moment of composition it didn't make it into this poem but it's in another one where there are these huge trailers for bathrooms that the city is willing to close down streets for because they're filming. So trying to fit all that into a very very tiny poem that that uh is like hardly a sonnetYeah is is the challenge um but then also to let it accrue because it's a sonnet cycle.