being white is to wish
to never have been born at all
it is necessary
to apologize
to defer all understanding
of real suffering
being white is to be wrong
and to grovel in apology
to be born a foreigner
bereft of origin
on stolen land
with borrowed time
inheriting bloody tools
meant for laziness
being white is to be guilty
by association
of placing guilt
by assocation
on those guilty
of associating
with your father’s
brown brother
neither of whom
anyone has ever
met.
the door is closed
i lie in a sugary filth
i dream of international politics
yet
the possibilities remain unheeded
the apathy in the air
fossilizes the skin
do something different
than you’ve done before
maybe it won’t leave you
empty and hungry
and lying in a cheap
sugary filth
do something or you
will be frozen in
time,
gasping for breath
with stone lungs whose
efficiency is massively
degraded
do something at all and
push a wave into the
maddening ocean and
try not to cringe
when it comes back
changed by the distance
and its intent foreign
do something so they all
stop staring.
depressed
modern
eating disease
today-america
apathetically excretes
missiles
and
inference
in god-like
proportions
equal in appetite
necessarily naive
an organism
kept ignorant
by the very structure
of her foundation
this cell,
laughs!
and whistles while he
labors!
for where else are
we to go?
where there is only
servitude, or exile?
I tried to categorize
my political views today
and this is out what came:
pseudo liberalish,
at times,
I often like to think,
though probably not as much,
as I often like to think.
one of my favorite things
is to hear old people say
unexpected and jarring things
such as this quote heard today
from the lips of my wife’s grandma
concerning her view of Sarah Palin:
“God didn’t put tits on women for no good reason”
the sieve and the sand 