Should a black man
in America
love his country?
She should be
lovely to be loved,
not my country
right or wrong.
Only White Men
wrote the constitution with
their rich quill pens
from imperial England,
and white fruits flourished
atop Broken Black Backs,
Flagellation and snapped
roped necks.
America elected a President
of all colors, perhaps Her
finest hour,
But the slave's legacy
in America is still
one of subjugation---
So an NAACP office
is bombed, white
cops kill black boys
NYC mayor warns son
"be wary", whips
speak to supremacists,
and a homeless black man
named Africa
should be careful
where he reaches.
Gil Hoy is a regular contributor to The New Verse News. He is a Boston trial lawyer and studied poetry at Boston University, majoring in philosophy. Gil started writing his own poetry and fiction in February of last year. Since then, his poems and fiction have been published in multiple journals, most recently in The Potomac, The Zodiac Review, Harbinger Asylum and Earl of Plaid Literary Journal.