Question

What does this stanza mean

how we felt
to learn that the week he arrived,
he died. Or how it is now,
driving his parched streets,
feeling the booth beneath us as we order,
oh, anything, because if we don’t,
nothing will come.
how we felt
to learn that the week he arrived,
he died. Or how it is now,
driving his parched streets,
feeling the booth beneath us as we order,
oh, anything, because if we don’t,
nothing will come.

Answer 1

Immigrants had double and nothing all at once. How does the phrase “Immigrants had double and nothing all at once” affect the meaning and tone of the poem? It expresses that immigrants have something but yet they don't really have anything. (it expresses thatimmigrants have it rough).