Living in Fear of This Country by Emily Jo Scalzo
Know no one willing to take your survival
in exchange for America
loves your children and grandchildren—
that exchange isn’t noble.
Grandparents, grandchildren, children,
don’t want to be sacrificed;
people are pretty lost.
Business and the president
can work smarter.
Don’t sacrifice America—
this disease could take our ethos,
something worse than dying.
Emily Jo Scalzo holds an MFA in fiction from California State University-Fresno and is an assistant teaching professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Her work has appeared in various magazines including Midwestern Gothic, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Blue Collar Review, New Verse News, and others. Her first chapbook, The Politics of Division, was published in 2017 and awarded honorable mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards in 2018.
