[If You Have Received This Notice]

Julia’s poem is an erasure of the letter hundreds of trans Kansas residents received in March 2026, nullifying their driver’s licenses overnight. As reader Mary Ann Odete notes, this poem “strips the notice down to its bare bones,” circumventing the boilerplate niceties to reveal just how devastating such a blatant attack on a marginalized community can be. The opening line is chilling, and the contrast between that and the closing line is harrowing.