Our Common Justice

WHEN / one people dissolve / another, assume

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Author's note: The source material for the poem is The Declaration of Independence, principally written by Thomas Jefferson. The copy used for this erasure is found in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’s website, last revised in July 2025, and is available here.

About the author

Steven O. Young Jr. is knitted within the Great Lakes's mitten, where he earned an MA from Oakland University and occasionally slathers soundstages with his body weight's worth of paint. His latest literary homes include The Louisville Review, The Citron Review, Just Milieu Zine, Oracle Fine Arts Review, and Rubbertop Review.