i.

in my brother's artwork, wired
stick figures are glued to cardboard
paper. one of them is holding a bat
while his friends surround a kneeling
body they kick and stomp

i ask Drew, what's the title?
"oh," he says, "it's called White Boy
Said the N-Word on the Ball Court"


ii.

sophomores then, we looked
around the dining hall to see
if anyone else heard him

Steffan and i shared a table with
a freckled face, red head who
used the N-Word word to describe
his black friend sitting with him

until that moment, we swore
we'd rip the head off any of them
brave or stupid enough
to use that word around us

we should have grabbed his collar,
yanked him across the table and
stomped him like those stick-figures
fed up with the sense of entitlement
some people walk around with

but all Steffan and i could do
was watch the brotha embrace
his white friend laughing as if
one of us had said it

feelin' on these lines here:


>we should have grabbed his collar,
>yanked him across the table and
>stomped him like those stick-figures
>fed up with the sense of entitlement
>some people walk around with
>
>but all Steffan and i could do
>was watch the brotha embrace
>his white friend laughing as if
>one of us had said it


your direction is getting stronger....love...k

...you have always painted a vivid picture and you do that well here...maybe the word melt into the culture (?)...






"My turn to speak in tongues"

--Photosynthesis

"the unexpected takes hold"--Robynwildchild

Clever and moving. I really felt the helplessness here.

it came out of my vocab!

This was well done G. Very well done.
I dug the symetry between the picture and the action...or lack thereof.
Coo.

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