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capital hill
their literature sits in the library;
fake words dripping off the pages’ tongues like poison;
the “teachings” leaving corpses in their wake;
there is a future here, predicted after every inked colon.
it isn’t quiet,
the words scream murder.
the hatred lingers
the faint stench wafting through the air.
they love to hand off tributes:
The girl an offering to keep peace by a barbaric dictator,
not too far from our own past, no?
but we must maintain the games because of the economics of it all;
they say practiced and perfected cuts of death are necessary,
the scars etched on the back of this ugly country refusing to heal.
Confidence in white supremacy is absolute,
and that past of pain perforates every nook and cranny of this
sacred?
country.
maybe we should have stayed a couple of prisoners sent from the homeland,
refusing to budge on “our” land.
the pain of the past flashes at every intersection,
concealed in concrete.
but no matter how much we hide,
the truth is inevitable.
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When referring to tributes, I alluded to the Hunger Games. America has many problems when it comes to inequality and racism. The poem discusses how inhumane practices like slavery were legal and how the pain caused continues with discrimination, inequality and brutality in today’s world. It also mentions how land was taken away from Native Americans and how Georgia was originally founded as a way from prisoners to work off their debts.