and when I heard the news that morning
I asked if he was white
I wanted him to be white
and my white friend wanted him to be an Arab
but he was Korean
the son of an immigrant dry cleaner
and for whatever reason he shot and killed 33 people that day
and it really doesn't matter
whether he was white or black
brown or yellow
naturalized or immigrant
to the families
or to the dead
he was death
and death has no color
so he was white
and he was black
and he was brown
and he was me
and he was you