IMMIGRANT TEEN
by Berwick "Underscore" Augustin
Migrated from Haiti to Miami
Dreamed of helping family get out of misery
But lived a nightmare of being a refugee without refuge
Scared because life is being swallowed by despair
black, immigrant, and language impaired
Triple minority
Marginalized in the margins of inequality
I felt like the 80s hated me
Few months in, I’m ready to go back to Haiti
Center for Disease Control told the world
My people carried HIV/AIDS, the lies swirled
Into rumored that we eat cats and carried tuberculosis
A crisis that avalanched into cultural psychosis
Savage mistreatments from misinformed blacks
White America’s whips of injustice slicing our backs
Comforted by unemployment and isolation
It felt like a sin to be Haitian
Chastised like second class heathens
Might as well be living in Hades
Life of a middle school immigrant from Haiti
Living in Little Haiti in the 80s.
Berwick has authored multiple books including the book of poem "Numbered Words"
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