Commonalities

Freeways connect
The Golden State
I-5
Droughts
Prisons
3 strikes
You’re out
Life is no
Ball game
Displacing families
Generations
From
San Francisco to
Chavez Ravine
Giants throw children
In cages
Lost California dreams
Wrapped in foreclosed homes
Become profits
A living income
Is out of reach
Cities have buffer cities
Keep the poor ones
Who built them out
From Cupertino
To San Marino
Keep it moving
Down the west coast
Down these streets
Go back to wherever you came from
Even though it’s only a few miles away
If you stand over there you can see the place
Where
Palm Trees
Meet
Blue Sky
You don’t need to take a road trip
Across the state to see
How we live as if there were already walls
Dividing us