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Fleshtones

by The Irrational Library

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White guy with privilege on his chin,
he’s wearing a suit and tie, he’s got that silk napkin
and a black dude with a hoodie on
and a bulge in his pocket
and everyone in the store watching him
wondering what’s he packing?

Asian fella fed up leaning there behind the counter
staring into space got a pissed off look
all over his Buddha face
and the Muslim woman with her hijab on
standing there yelling into her telephone
and everyone around her wondering if she owns
the goddam place.

Moroccan kids kicking over garbage cans
and the newspapers say that each one packs a knife
and that girl from Senegal unable to go to school
cause she’s here illegal, having had to flee for her life.

And all that worry about the LGBTQ
ask yourself brother why the fuck does any of it
even bother you?
All these acronyms for equality
and pronouns for personal use,
now it’s hard for me to believe that the freedom of choice
actually, ever had anything to do with the right to choose.

Social justice chancre sore,
political system a complete whore
confederate flag flog a dead horse
fragmented freedom and the continuous use
of undue force.

Barbed wire refugee
work at home
locked down
yet living free
paranoid mental state
watch what you say on your first date
cancel culture fist bump
are we still blaming all our problems on
good old Donald?

You see I’m doing a backstroke through
a polluted sea of stereotypes
and the humor that we used to share and hold so dear
is now just dried up frustration,
the flesh tones of a face
full of fear.

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released September 29, 2023

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