ONE THRONE

I'm Not a Racist

 

I’m a realist: if I see a pack of hoods approaching, loitering,

acting a littering of public sidewalks, I simply

 

move to the other

 

side of the street, play it safe. I keep it on me at all times,

for safety purposes.

 

In the event of open fire,

 

you’d be a hazard I told them when I, regrettably, couldn’t

allow the lot of them into the party.

 

We’re part of the same

 

political party, according to all the numbers I’ve seen.

When I shut the schools down, I was just

 

doing what must be done

 

      to balance a city budget out of wack. When I put what

I found in his trunk on balance,

 

it was enough to tip the scale

 

towards a felony. I used to be a waiter, and they never

tipped very well in my experience.

 

While we were placing bets,

 

   I noticed him tip his hand ever so slightly and there was

a  ̶̶r̶a̶c̶e̶ face card in it. He didn’t seem

 

like much of a bluffer, so I stood

 

my ground. On the grounds of merit – that’s how I got

into Yale. I’m just not that into black

 

girls, personally. I mean, personally,

 

I don’t SEE color. I’m so sorry, I really didn’t see you there.

There they go, using that word again:

 

if they can say it, then why can’t I?

 

I can’t understand why everybody is so sensitive these days.

I admit, what I said sounded a little bit

 

insensitive, but believe me, I’m not

 

a racist. I’m a realist: if I see a pack of hoods approaching, loitering,

acting a littering of public sidewalks,

 

I simply move to the other side.

 

I keep it on me at all times, for purposes: in the event of a

hazard, open fire I told them, regrettably,

 

looking at the body splayed before me.