America, did you have a soul to lose?
Did you have hope for your children?
Did you ever welcome anyone?
Did you put them in schools to ready them for jobs?
Did you belong here, from the beginning?
Did you round up the children to free up jobs?
This would not be the first time, America.
When are you going away?
America, I’m tired of you.
You brought them guns.
You kept them out.
You put them in pipelines:
school to prison
JROTC to army
residential school to reservation
You forced them here:
slave ships
bombing their home countries
hunger and deprivation
Shithole country,
your own children are gunning you down.
You gave them no way out.
You entice them with jobs.
You train them for jobs.
You make them need jobs
that don’t exist.
Let’s get back “[t]o the real work, to
‘what is to be done.’”
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