Thursday, August 18, 2022

Everything I Know About Blackness I Learned from Donald Trump by Shane McCrae

Everything I Know About Blackness I Learned from Donald Trump

 
“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
 
—DONALD TRUMP
 
America I was driving when I heard you
Had died I swerved into a ditch and wept
In the dream I dreamed unconscious in the ditch
 
America      I dreamed you climbed from the ditch
You must believe your body is and any
Body and stood beside the ditch for eight years
 
Thinking      except you didn’t stand you right
Away lay down on your pale belly
And tried to claw your way back to the ditch
 
You right away began to wail      and weep
And gnash your teeth      my tears met yours in the ditch
America      they carry me downstream
 
A slave on the run from you      an Egyptian queen
And even in my dreams I’m in your dreams



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