They are always around in the cities now. But poems are not political platforms. I guess I share that 18th-century belief that feeling for something is one of the enablers of acting more ethically. If you believe that other people are human also, you will not sweep them off the streets. One of the things you learn as a poet is to pay attention.
Attention is love.
It is a way of forcing yourself to experience freshly. In the new collection, you have several poems that depict the terrible feeling of dislocation so many of us feel from our surroundings. Success means moving up and out. The whole poem is about the cost of that dispatching of one's own past. If we have no home in the world, it's difficult to feel at home inside ourselves.