Foreigners send agents, surveillance
to photograph your land,
spy on your peoples,
strategize against your national defenses,
map the resources under your earth,
determine profits to be taken
from you and your children,
foment unrest in your streets,
destroy your culture.
After co-editing an underground newspaper in the midwest during the late sixties, Thomas Hubbard raised a family and worked at various endeavors. He is currently a retired writing instructor and freelance feature writer who became active in Seattle's Slam and other venues in 1993, winning the Grand Slam in 1995. He has been published in various poetry anthologies and his first chapbook, Nail and other hardworking poems, was published in 1995 by Year of the Dragon Press.