On the eve of the United States Supreme Court considering the Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright citizenship that defines who an American is, I offer the following.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1

they are not hiding in the dark corners of america
they want to be seen	heard	
attentively	religiously	and
if you don’t	there will be a price
to pay

from the shadows 	the eclectic ramblings
comes the knowledge 
that I should have seen
coming

I can’t believe       don’t want to believe	that I was this blind
	
dig a long ditch	where the sewage of hate
lies
racism
misogyny
colorism
can freely flow

rants are good	they flush out	the mud	the shifting sand
clogging

The sewers that run through your soul
	I see it now	whose fault it is	who I should blame
	For all the troubles	troubling the troublemakers
	The despair they must feel
	The anger they must corral
	The truth they must hold back

back to back to back to back
	before they explode	a gun	a knife	a wagging tongue

an exploding keyboard	there is so much that must be said before 
	they	take over	redefine who what the 
	United States of America and the real Americans really are

am I an American
I was born here
are you an American
where are you from

you should help me understand 
	who they really are
	what do they want
	why do they want it
	how will they take it 	back

from them
	and we all know who	them is

thank your god	that you are in the fight
	protecting the nation	the culture	the hisStory
	written by you		about you	for you

protected	propagated	procreated	proliferated	
ensuring that your 
	
in spite of all this
     the truth will live forever.