The Frustration of Immigration (b) chapters 17-19*

My poem addresses the fear and frustration that the farmers go through (from bystander's POV) when they are immigrating into California. This includes the discrimination that they experience and their melancholic feelings regarding their past and what they were forced to leave behind.

Masses of cars 

Lacking vitality just like cigars 

Leaving their farms behind

They were forced to resign 

And now they are being received by the unkind

Okies they are called

and they are appalled

see, California was just a dream

and now they scream

with pain

but there is no gain...