New Year's Rooftops

A home without a roof
is not a home when you can't live in it and cannot return
and in Puerto Rico / 16 months after Maria
almost a quarter of a million homes remain without roofs

What is it to be displaced in the tens of thousands
from an island devastated by category 5 hurricane winds?
What is it when an paper towel throwing clown from downtown still swears only 16 people died, and now says he won't give a dime?
more / over says la casa blanca / the money will go to fund a border wall
more than 3,000 deaths are just a drop in the bucket to a fascist regime
every time it rains it pours / from bad to worse / what is it but violence?

And it goes on but we choose action instead of being mystified / to serve community / serve as your own / claim it as yours / and it reminds you what is possible when you see hardworking working class college students / young / wild and free give their time / their hands to help Puerto Rican families know:

     You are not alone / we will be a part of solutions
         not optimistic New Year's resolutions
         building roofs one roof at a time / we got your back
                to keep families in Puerto Rico
                    and bring Puerto Rican families back
                         we are back
                              and we will return.

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