Make Something Great Again
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA program in fiction. His story, "Soon," was nominated for a Pushcart. Yash has also had work nominated for Best of the Net and The Best Small Fictions. A native of Idaho, Yash’s work is forthcoming or has been published in WestWard Quarterly, Café Lit, and Ariel Chart, among others.
By Yash Seyedbagheri
Make something great again,
so something has to be taken away
more like someone
but America’s a trade-off right
so what do we redistribute?
I’ll take a gay man for $500, Alex
or a Mexican for $1,000
of course, you’re Canadian, Alex
and doing addition and subtraction
is fake news
let’s lock someone up