Speak White Speak white It sounds so good when you Speak of Paradise Lost And of the gracious and anonymous profile that trembles In Shakespeare’s sonnets We’re an uncultured stammering race But we are not deaf to the genius of a language Speak with the accent of Milton and Byron and Shelley and Keats Speak [...]
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Watts Riot
Posted in poetry on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Streets
Posted in poetry on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These streets are not my own. I have no right to walk by myself, I have no right to wear tank tops in the summer or let a skirt ripple my skin on a breezy day. I should expect for men to whistle, it must mean they like me. I mean I am intruding on [...]
Judgment
Posted in poetry, tagged poetry on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
She stares at you with a cemented stoic face, you who puts worth on only those who descend from Aryan race. He swallows your repugnance when he holds his lover’s hand and walks past your well-mown lawns, with his devoted man. She hides her career from your molesting eyes while she dances in bars for [...]
