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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

We Must!



What are we talking about?
What the FUCK are we talking about?
At what point,
do you STOP talking shit,
acknowledge your delusional thinking,
and admit that we’re all fucking immigrants? 

You and your ancestors,
should have/could have/would have/were
been, deported.
And the same tired narrative,
of who gets to be here,
and who doesn’t
is ridiculous. 

The only ones,
who are not immigrants
to this land,
are the indigenous people.
Hostages,
to the eternal
manifest destiny. 

Don’t we ALL know
why immigrants have been
coming here for more than 500 years?

To escape the economic horror of brutual foreign policies and corrupt governments.
To flee crushing hunger.
To flee religious and political persecution.
To flee linguistic and cultural genocide. 
In search of hope,
a chance,
to live. 

The story of migration,
NEVER CHANGES! 

Even the bears are coming down from the Sierras,
into human populated areas,
because they are looking for food and water,
due to the scarcity at higher elevations
because of the California drought. 
You think that if bears are on the move,
humans, who really know what their situation is,
aren’t going to be?
It is instinctual,
and you make it a crime?

I can only conclude,
that anyone who is really talking about
deporting people,
and closing the borders,
and forcing everyone to pass an English test,
or permanently detain families,
in private prisons,
just lacks the most basic
understanding of the human condition.
Human beings
want to survive.

We have a will
and an instinct to live. 
Our movement,
across borders,
and oceans,
and deserts,
and mountain ranges,
is just our instinct,
to save ourselves.

And we’re going to do it,
no matter what you say.
You’ll just have to keep
killing us,
rounding us up,
sending us back,
imprisoning us. 

But
we
will
keep
coming
back. 


We must.

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