Immigrant's tale

We bend and we bow
we fold into ourselves
we tuck our identity in
we don't want to be seen
To be seen
is to be targeted
To be seen
is to have
an old white man
ask you to
shove your shopping cart
out of his privileged way
merely by the stare on his face
So we bend and we bow
we fold into ourselves
we tuck our identity in
Being brown
by default
is being bad.