Dear Texas Legislature,

Have you forgotten that I too 

 flower 

bonnets 

    of 

   blue

The way you step on me be illegal

Not us of the land - who have tended so carefully

Too careful not to say the words that trigger you for too long

We are the seedkeepers 

Every colony of blue as far as the eye can see

Planted by people who look like me

Our blood has voluntarily and involuntarily fed 

The f l o o d i n g river of red

This sea, oh how blue it used to be

How you have polluted our waters and made us martyrs

While the blue bonnets you praise — dry of drought

As a child — I thought I would be treated with praise too

Let the children be our state flowers

Violence to those who harm them

A sentence to those who use them as pawns

Have the list of bill numbers filled your mind too?

How many is too many to kill 

Even if their blood be bluebonnet

Even if their Texan family be here generations 

Texans Taxed for a wealthy few

As our Medicaid grows hungry

Swallowing shallow breaths of molded hospital pantry food

Throat swollen from choking on tax cuts for the rich

Tired of pleading for doctors they cannot afford

Tug of war with our lives on the line so we

Hold grudges to those who knew — what benefiting only 

some 

Texans would do

While the rivers run away from the lack of fluidity this state can tolerate

Contemplate your next move

Be it another building of a bad bill 

Building the army of Texans who are SICK OF YOUR SHIT

Because blue bonnets grow angry when 

every 

bad 

bill 

be 

under the guise

of protecting Texans

We grow tired of the so called leaders of this state

Y’all means all —though they grow less Texan by targeting all 

Be it Disabled, Indigenous, Black, Immigrant or queer

they get off  - on giving us all a reason to fear 

my blood be bluebonnet so watch where the fuck you step