and US green card gripped like lifelines --
following the footsteps of killers
while cursing the killers' gohosts,
as though moral clarity
were something earned on arrival.
With great ceremony they condemn
"the barbaric Europeans of centuries past,"
even as they settle quite warmly
into homes built on the bones
of those same centuries.
Money-apprently-
is the purest form of philosophy.
They call themselves "civilized,"
the shadowes still drift across history textbooks
And in the modern era-
the one with electricity, tractors, and radio towers-
millions starved or vanished
under the same red banner
they now defend with curated notalgia.
But this, they insist,
is a "complex chapter"
best left politely unmentioned
at dinner parties abroad.
Yet with impeccable confidence
they sermonize about morality,
humanity,
civilization -
as if irony were a foreign language
no one had taught them.
Curious, isn't it?
To cross the ocean
only to plant yourself on another people's grave
and still manage to brag
about the superiority of your civilization.
But contradctions, like suitcases,
are easiest to carry when packed lightly -
especially when your American dream
comes with good education,
Money and freedom
indipendence and equality
you'd never give up
for any motherland under the sun.
they are perfect "夹头" -
loud patriots online,
silent immigrants in life;
love stored behind a screen,
wealth and children overseas,
giving nothing but empty slogans.
"Loving" there,
living here,
and loyal --
above all --
to the dollar.
