no other way out

Streets of Minneapolis by Bruce Springsteen 

is so hard to watch when comments

are sobbing about seeing renee's face

or alex pretti's

with flowers piled up and ice agents shooting

and the black and brown people screaming

and shouting

and i just today found out about the banned countries list

all of which are black and brown countries

asia, africa, south america

sure, neo-nazis get first class

but the working class 

don't.

facebook newsletters

and what about the show that appeared on my 

netflix fyp

about blaze bernstein

he was killed

for being jewish 

and 

gay.

renee good 

was gay

i thought america was an amazing country

and so did immigrants

like when i read all the books 

of chinese or korean immigrants

or immigrant generations (like me)

saying how they want to live 

the american dream.

they always leave out the details

of the shootings

and the death

and the economy

and the fact that

those who are dutiful to uphold the law

are killing their own citizens.

i don't necessarily think

that my family

would be too proud to see 

the place that they immigrated to

was a hellhole of 

bullets and blood and tears and dead flowers

you can replace flowers

but they can't live forever.

death is always the way out

but it's often too early.