Forbidden Fruit

By Marcus B. Christian

Eyes of sea-blue and carmined lips,

Light-blonde hair and albino skin,

Mae West figure and heavy hips,

And, "the least of men."

"Dynamite sweater" and sky-blue skirt,

White breasts gleaming through knitted wool;

Dark skin, gray pants and sky-blue shirt

Was the other fool!

Practicing all of woman's wiles --

Flotsam and jetsam in God's great flow;

A white girl laughs and a dark man smiles

As the sun sinks low.

She is forbidden to all of his kind --

Separated by chasms deep --

Fenced in -- walled in -- but they don't mind:

Well, rope is cheap . .

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