YOUR BLACKNESS
Scott and I order groceries on INSTACART
We just discovered this service for lazy bones like us
Right on time, between 11:30 and noon, a car arrives
in front of my house, how excited I am for my fresh
groceries and the man who will tote it to my house
Daffodils are displayed on my front porch in a glass
jar that once belonged to my dead mother
Why not celebrate the renewal of our land
at Easter time?
Howl go the winds
Monsieur, the Black Man
arrives from his hearse-like dark car
One arm is exposed
Black like chocolate cake
Black like a Woolworth countertop
Black so a master could whip him
and make him bleed
What shall I eat first?
Tiny Dove Chocolate Bites
no bigger than a quarter
We gave him a big gratuity
but the welts on his back
still show and some day
he's gotta explain all this
George Floyd and Trayvon Martin
and Brionna Taylor brutality
to his handsome children and
pray they don't die alone.
....
I am drinking hot Earl Grey Tea with Patrick's honey
in my new coffee cup.
In a spontaneous moment I ordered the white and black cup
online.
A ? mark scrawls across it.
?
And then the words
WTF is going on in the World?
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