"make america great again," they say. what about making america kind again? making america safe again? making america TOLERANT again, if it ever was to begin with. i'm not pledging to your flag of red, white, and blue if all of this promised freedom is only for you. they say this is the land of the free... but for who? for you? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- i wrote this poem because i genuinely think i need to book it out of here as soon as i turn 18 violence on the streets every day dangerous for me as a queer person of color the. list. goes. on.
