a whitewashed pot by Rhyana FisherHe rants reasonably
in a calm, teaching tone
of "dirty spics" and "lazy niggers"
...invading our country
...stealing our jobs
...ruining our economy
...wasting our taxes
...trashing our neighborhoods
...abusing welfare.
"Well, no...
they aren't ALL like that,"
he'll drawl when pressed.
"But it's not worth MY time
to sort one decent person
out of ninety-nine percent scum."
His illogical rationality
is always exhausting to refute
and I remain perplexed
at how efficiently he ignores
those echoes of "ignorant savage"
rebounding within our shared bloodline
as they carve past my eardrums
on serrated wings.
04/13/2008 Author's Note: we carry ojibwa blood. some people can't even learn from family history...
criticize. harshly. there's something off about that last stanza and i still haven't figured out how to revise it.
Posted on 04/13/2008 Copyright © 2024 Rhyana Fisher
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