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White Americans
will demonstrate for equal rights in front of the Black House
women were
awake with lights and food
man meeting
man speaks cautiously
all you care
about is what is between your legs
no society
would touch you. Not even a building society
they thought I was
Mexican, of course, and in a way, I am
I seem separate
from the ground, and not rooted
lonely
thing
donned
impersonality
a county
delinquant who should have been in a home
had lived
smooth, well-ordered, stabilized within the photo lives
these people
don’t bother with appearances
to trample
your throat in your dreams
to dare
a future from the taken routes
do I fit
in their worlds?
men manufacture
both machine and soul
a woman like
that is not a woman / or is misunderstood
you shoot
down the vietnamese girls and men in their fields
The American
I’ll destroy
yet all the city
is a haunted place
Marylou
took everything in the books
all these women were
chatting about the madness of men