Mathematics || Spoken Word by @holliepoetry

A poem on immigration based on personal experience and studies. The poem owes a lot to a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them. Mathematics He says “those god damn pakistanis and their goddamn corner shops Built a shop on every corner took our British workers jobs He says those godamn Chinese and their goddamn china shops I tell him theyre from Vietnam but he doesn’t give a toss I ask him what was there before that damn Japan mans shop He stares at me and dreams a