What Kind of America
When the president promises to make America great again,
Which America is he referring to?
Is it the one,
Built on the backs of immigrants
The one,
Pressed against the back of Eric Garner as he cries
“I can’t breathe!”
Is it the Statue of Liberty,
Stripped of all she stands for
While she is disrobed and aching
Onlookers have the audacity to ask
“What was she wearing?”
She is told she must have been asking for it as the conversation turns
from the right to bear arms to the right to bare arms.
Is it the one,
Demanding a man prove his love’s authenticity
These demands from the same mouths flooded with hatred,
dripping with bigotry
America is drowning.
Like a bee in its own honey
Emancipation did not mean evaporation
No, that is not a bald eagle,
It is a vulture.