“I need meat to eat,

that is perfectly clear,

I have canine teeth”

Just like the deer

Essential, we called you, as you placed our packages near our tightly closed back door

If you were Christian, and the president of your country called for a complete shut down of all Christians entering the country,

“Isn’t this fun?” 

the father says to his son

I couldn’t vote in

America until, like,

That is, if your way

is ground muscle tissue,

capillaries and blood,

America,

land of the free,

home of the incarcerated

Someone once told me, and I never forget,

that I need meat for protein. Well… shit!

The waves appeared

deceptively calm

when the iceberg hit

I’ve spent many a night with John Turturro

Well, to be fair, he was using 

a different name at the time

Old MacDonald

killed my family

If you deleted the tweets

laced with racism,

sexism, or xenophobia…

It cannot be conquered by being ignored,

by pretending it does not exist,

We invented the wheel, sliced bread, chairs that fold,

and a way to tell who was calling before we answered the phone 

Pointless political pageantry

where our blood-thirsty "saviors"

will still fully savor the flesh

of finely roasted death

How can we grow in this country, as white people, and think our work is done? That we somehow avoid racism with our good intentions

She was beaten by masters

While he held a whip

No cow committed suicide

simply because you looked hungry

and you don’t care for squash

Childhood memories tiptoe,

twist, tango, and tap dance

their way among the drops

You didn’t turn the pages hoping Wilbur,

despite Charlotte’s best intentions,

would still lie sliced upon Zuckerman’s plate