enter only
if you have never placed hands on a single gun
enter only
if not a single factory farm animal has ever passed your teeth
enter only
if you are a citizen of a place without crimes against humanity, without genocidal history, without imperialism
enter only
if the language you speak has never spoken crime into existence or war
do places of grief & gathering say that?
would not these places be forever empty if they did?
imagine if those were the conditions to enter a graveyard or memorial park
the dead would rather have us, i think
then have us too guilty, too ashamed, too broken to even bring ourselves into remembering enough to carry them with us, carry them in