我不期待从美国那得到什么
我想成为新国家的公民
我要一个接纳移民英雄的国家
我要一个国家
那里的快乐跟人一样真诚
我要一个遵守承诺的国家
喝水时不用担心受怕
我要一个不轰炸其他地方的国家
我要一个不把人民当病毒的国家
我要一个国家
不把我当瘟疫，试着根除我
我要一个公平对待妈妈的国家
我要一块地
姐姐可以在那里自由生活
我要一个国家
一个不要看着我跟亲人
就想该怎么找地方烧死我们的国家
我要一个国家
那里有更慈悲的神眷顾
我愿正义是动词而不是一场梦
我要曾许诺给我的
40亩田还有一张重要的选票
我要监狱从此消失 还要一只骡子(注)
我要所有的生命都值得活
我想跨越种族 种族不该概夸我
我要和平 公平
我想让枪融化成清真寺 教堂
成为我们可以祈祷的地方
我不再祈求国家属于我
只求它放下枪
收回落下的炸弹
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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注:40亩田与骡子为一流行于美国内战前南方的故事,说明政府会将内战后所没收的土地每
人分得40英亩与一头骡子给获得自由的黑人.事实是内战后土地的产权大多还给原有地主
不分配给重获自由的黑人
详见:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule