anti-immigration

the black people left, and took with them their furious hurricanes and their fire-breathing rap songs meltingthe polar ice caps. they left behind the mining jobs, but took that nasty black lung disease and the insuranceregulations that loop around everything concerning health and care, giant holes of text that all the coveragefalls through. the brown people left, and took with them the pesticides collecting like a sheen on the skinsof fruit. they went packing, and packed off with them went all the miserable low-paying gigs, the pre-dawncommutes, the children with expensive special needs and the hard-up public schools that tried to meet them.the brown people left, railroaded into carting off those tests that keep your average bright young student outsidethe leagues of ivy-lined classrooms, and also hauled off their concentrated campuses, their great expectations, theirinvasive technology, and the outrageous pay gap between a company's c.e.o. and its not-quite-full-time workers. theytook their fragile endangered pandas and species extinction and got the hell outta dodge. the black people left and tookhiv/aids, the rest of their plagues, and all that deviant sexuality with them. they took their beat-down matriarchiesand endless teen pregnancies, too. those monster-sized extended families, the brown people took those. the brownpeople boxed up their turbans and suspicious sheet-like coverings, their terrifying gun violence, cluster bombs,and drones, and took the whole bloody mess with them, they took war and religious brow-beating tucked undertheir robes. they took theocracy and their cruel, unusual punishments right back where they came from. finally,the white people left, as serenely unburdened as when they arrived, sailing off from plymouth rock with nothingin their hands but a recipe for cranberry sauce, a bit of corn seed, and the dream of a better life. there wereonly certain kinds of people here, after the exodus, migrating across the wilderness in search of buffalo,tobacco, and potable water, determined to discover, given all the leave-takings, what they might have left.