Black Like Me!!!

Black Like Me!!!

Black like me?

How the fuck?

What way in hell?

Artificially injected melanin,

Chemical compound and a

Enhanced hue.

Al Jolson like mask

What!  What!

Living 40 years righteous and still on the ground

Scratching my ass to feel grains.

No fucking cheddar,

Cheese whip ain’t for me,

Slave whips use to be,

Cat-o-nine-tails and carpenters dreams

A million and one retarded teardrops that never fell

Drowning in my own salted sea

Screaming so loud only Lassie can hear me

Walking in public spaces and altering street corner

Realties,

That’s a birth right!

Brent Staples said that not me.

John Howard Griffin,

Black like me!

Fuck

Feel the rush.

Hear the mother fucking Congo,

Niger,

Nile.

That Atlantic Ocean should run red!!!

Middle passage my ass,

Fucking burial at sea!!.

Why do you think Jaws was so mean?

Turn the world upside down and made sharks

Fishermen!

Black like me!!!!

Fuck

You can’t dance to my drums

You don’t face the world knowing

That the only joy it offers you is death

Shit

My empty bags would destroy your mother fucking back,

Pack that shit in.

Analyze this!

Why does a black man enter a store and suddenly cast a white shadow?

How comes a black man can walk down a street

And

Lock doors

Windows

Drop drapes

Shut shades

Change the direction of the wind

 Make you forget what direction you are going

Intensify your love for god

And start you praying!

Funny shit

A black man can make most white folks believe 

They are all Houdini

He walks into a room and they all turn him invisible

Just stare right through him

Black like me!!!

Fuck a 24-hour nightmare

Try a day after day in your face fear

What time is it?

When will the boys in blue say

“Hey you” click!

Shit no

Boom

Damn it

Boom!

 Boom!

Boom!

If it ain’t aids

Its sickle cell

If it ain’t the grave then a jail cell

Trees consumed quite a few

Vietnam did a mother fucking number too

Mix 40’s and crackerjacks

Jack you

Your sons

Your brothers

Daughters and sisters tasting cream and forgetting

Chocolate

Walking in synce

Sinking their fingers into Barbie’s curls and voicing

Discontent with naps.

Dreading locks

Fools think are serpentile.

Black like me?

Sugar  water for tea.

Wonder bread and mayonnaise.

Please

Water can stretch anything that comes in a can,

Bottle,

Container of anger so torrid

That it burns the sun

Black like

Black like me?

John Howard Griffin

Pure

White fantasy