我不期待從美國那得到什麼
我想成為新國家的公民
我要一個接納移民英雄的國家
我要一個國家
那裡的快樂跟人一樣真誠
我要一個遵守承諾的國家
喝水時不用擔心受怕
我要一個不轟炸其他地方的國家
我要一個不把人民當病毒的國家
我要一個國家
不把我當瘟疫，試著根除我
我要一個公平對待媽媽的國家
我要一塊地
姐姐可以在那裡自由生活
我要一個國家
一個不要看著我跟親人
就想該怎麼找地方燒死我們的國家
我要一個國家
那裡有更慈悲的神眷顧
我願正義是動詞而不是一場夢
我要曾許諾給我的
40畝田還有一張重要的選票
我要監獄從此消失 還要一隻騾子(註)
我要所有的生命都值得活
我想跨越種族 種族不該概誇我
我要和平 公平
我想讓槍融化成清真寺 教堂
成為我們可以祈禱的地方
我不再祈求國家屬於我
只求它放下槍
收回落下的炸彈
Principles (after JFK) by Danez Smith
i don’t want America no more.
i want to be a citizen of something new.
i want a country for the immigrant hero.
i want a country where joy is indigenous
as the people.
i want a country that keeps its word.
i want to not be scared to drink the water.
i want a country that don’t bomb other countries.
i want a country that don’t treat a it’s people
like a virus. i want a country not trying
to cure itself of me. i want a country
that treats my mama right. i want a land
where my sister can be free. i want a country
that don’t look at me and my man & think
about where and how we should burn.
I want a nation under a kinder god.
I want justice the verb not justice the dream.
i want what was promised to me.
i want 40 acres and a vote that matters.
i want no prisons and a mule.
i want all lives to matter.
i want to be over with race
but race ain’t over me.
i want peace. i want equity. i want guns
to be melted into a masque, a church
a place for us to pray
and i wanna stop praying for my country
to be mine, for it to put the gun down
to take the bomb back.
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註:40畝田與騾子為一流行於美國內戰前南方的故事,說明政府會將內戰後所沒收的土地每
人分得40英畝與一頭騾子給獲得自由的黑人.事實是內戰後土地的產權大多還給原有地主
不分配給重獲自由的黑人
詳見:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule