It takes just one person
to spoil a good party
or ruin someone's night
Still you persist problem
child you remain present
for whom I must account
If your question evades
my sense of dignity
you dig my grave to steal
The very pungent corpse
you believe worth value
money pleasure despite
Being dead rattle bag
of bones as the question
you ask acts like a spear
Enter the racist world
black against the brown man
the difference a few shades
Conceive of history
as against your people
from whom do you descend
Are you really black man
were all your ancestors
black ask for a recount
Understand this my friend
I think you ask of me
this question as I peel
So many layers past
of genetic false pride
like Henry Louis Gates
Even if you believe
you are the one black man
who laughs while others share
In your pointed humor
the institutional
racism you see degrades
Murders sends off to war
draft cards in hand locks up
in prisons to pretend
Black people are worthy
only to live as slaves
of a system whose rules
Lack their favor I see
you ask little boy blue
if the big bad wolf eats
As many white children
as she does black children
listen to the three fates
Chew the bones of women
children and men they rape
in institutions schools
Killers like yourself walk
the streets drive fancy cars
your purpose seeks defeat
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