012020

Time was, you just needed to have dark skin, or poverty, or immigrant status, or to be a child, or a woman, for America to treat you badly. But now. Now! You have to work hard to be discriminated against. What on Earth would there be for Dr King to do, if he was alive today? He would probably want school children to learn about all the civil-rights leaders, and what they did. That would be the least we could do.

030118

              Lord Of Limburger

folk speak of you too freely

not in the hushed voice of your desire

but slyly, loudly

your putrid stench

that isn’t you

it’s just your cheesy shoes

your garments shed an odor

and so you are unwelcome

unfairly, I’ve thought

though I’ve kept silent about it

yet folks speak of you

constantly

casually

disrespectfully

as if laughing

behind your back