he's also a war criminal
like all men, a prisoner of his right hand
like all men, fucking him is a PATRIOT act
my uncle says we need to keep out the immigrants
not the ones who look like us, but the ones that don't
the ones who walk to school with both hands cuffed by a tongue and a zip-tie
do brown necks bend differently now?
all white men cast a grey shadow
he's also a friend of Obama
both of them men who like their girls in cages
bars on the window, rib-cage metal
a daughter cries for she is far from home
a daughter cries because she is home
he likes his little girls in cages
I have this one dream where I'm murdered after a hockey game
the barista at Starbucks gets my order wrong
and the men following me down the street slice me open like ahi tuna
blood and coffee and road salt meet sewer drain
did you know the Declaration of Independence
was typeset in Caslon's English Roman
the printer shipped it from England, cast in lead
the white men do not know it is poisonous to touch
I don't remember seeing girls who looked like me at the White House
back when I visited in 2016
I know so many letters of the alphabet now
surely that is a job requirement here
did you know that a white man can go to prison
and still make money off his own incarceration?
did you know that some white men never go to prison?
CNN writes that there are up to ten women Joe Biden could choose
for what, I write, for what
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