Birthday of ‘Merica

For everyone who doesn’t feel like this is a cause for celebration

For everyone who doesn’t feel like this is a cause for celebration

Photo by Anthony Garand on Unsplash

Ask me why I don’t celebrate
The birthday of oppression
Then listen to this proclamation — 
Or call it a confession

We’re founded on genocide
On the backs of enslaved people
Witches were burned in the shadows
Of cis-white men and their steeples

We’ve never been …