Arellano 1

Bryan Arellano
Mr. Buescher
U.S. History- Period 4
04 April 2017

(Interment) Found Poem

An Executive Order No. 9066 came out
A pall of gloom settled
Patriots insisted loudly
A Japs a Jap, no matter how you slice them
Our rights as American Citizens would not be violated
Now they're going to slap an alien 4-C on me because of my ancestry
I felt like a despised, pathetic two headed freak
Mother distributed sheets, pillowcase, and blankets which we stuffed into sea bags
Henry went to the Control Station to register the family
From then on, we were known as Family #10710
That night we rolled ourselves into army blankets like jelly rolls and slept on the bare
floor
The block monitor came around the first night to tell us that we must be inside our room
by nine o'clock every night
At ten o'clock, he rapped at the door again, yelling, Lights Out
Through the barracks, there were a medley of creaking pots, whimpering infants and
explosive night coughs
The powerful beam of lights came from high tower placed around the camp
Guards with Tommy Guns kept a twenty-four hour vigil
I felt a sickening chill race up and down my spine
The buzzing and droning continued louder and louder

We all shuddered as if we had had a brush with death

-Life in Camp Harmony