Raise Your Hand

     (In Favor of Immigrants)

how many of you sitting
here
think some woman of color
Black Brown Yellow White
woke up this morning thinking
“Goooolly … I can go to the airport
and clean toilets?”

Raise your right hand

how many of you sitting here
woke up this morning thinking
How lucky can they be
Oh Lordy I wish I could 
do that

Raise your left hand

how many of us sitting
here gave one dollar
to those women knowing
they are underpaid
and not appreciated
at all

Raise either hand

did you know if we all
gave one dollar
every time we urinated
those women might
take 100 dollars home
to feed their mother
their children
their uncle who moved in with them
their husband who will beat them

Raise any hand

how many of you
when you see those women
say thank God
it’s not me

Raise both your motherfucking hands
and Clap