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The racist
spat vulgarities,
across the filled
trolley car,
at the three
African American youths.
Enraged,
(and understandably so),
they appeared to be
spoiling for a fight.
I raised my voice
to intervene:
“This man is a fool,
and a piece of garbage
and he deserves
all that is coming to him
but if you are the ones
to deliver it to him
then other racists
in polyester
will brutalize you,
and arrest you,
and throw you into a system
that will eat you alive.
This man is a fool,
and will come
to a fools’ end
but for the sake
of your girlfriends
for the sake
of your mothers
for the sake
of your grandmothers
do not let
this piece of garbage
drag you down
with him
like victims of the Titanic
sucked down to the bottom
of the north Atlantic
by the momentum
of the sinking vessel.”
Perhaps
the were fans
of James Cameron
for they departed
the trolley
at the next stop.
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with a simple
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