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Almost White
me and my cousins
went down to the movie theatre
passing
sitting in the white
sections not high in the rafters with the ink
spots
the movies was
mandingo
and all I remember
was how they boiled that blue black iridescent
man in oil
and wouldn’t you know
it I wet my pants cause of
how fine he was
Marjorie had to
instruct me on how he wasn’t my type under no
circumstance
and when all the
white folks got up and cheered\that he was
finally dead
I wiped tears of lust
from my seat with Marjorie’s handkerchief
and screamed
that’s right die nigger
die
we don’t want nothing
to do with you this is our country
America for
Americans
Marjorie whispered
if only we could round all them soot bellies up
like a herd of
cattle and drop them into one grotesque cauldron
of lard
boil them until
the meat turn to gelatin foaming at the bottom
of the pot if only
then go off and
bury the bones in potters
field one massive
home-going
just imagine
white folks would have to give us our due
accept that we is
as white as them
no more in
between no more white niggers
we’d all be
indivisible under god and man
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