Your Stories: Papers Please, a Poem by Donald Larkin

Papers Please

Burning crosses and the canyon state
Brown eyed children and the laws of hate
There’s a bridge in Selma over deep deep waters.
Arizona, do you hate your sons and daughters?


Happy white faces and papers please
What you up to? and you gotta leave
Huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Land of our fathers and sweet liberty

Justice for all and Dr. King’s dream
National guardsmen and no I in team
Reality TV for the brown skinned man
Cause he’s caught up in this foreign land

The American dream and the Postville raid
Let freedom ring and American made
Teach kids to write and how to read books
Then ship Dad back cause of the way he looks

Burning crosses and the canyon state
Brown eyed children and the laws of hate
There’s a bridge in Selma over deep deep waters
Arizona, why hate your sons and daughters?

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COPYRIGHTED BY DONALD LARKIN

True Mexican thanks Donald for his beautiful contribution.