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My, my, you old fool.
Of course, bones aren’t racist.
We’ve seen the pictures.
Kennewick man, skull sort of yellow,
sort of green, sort of gray.
All the bones at the end
come to some sort of pale.
You know, Alas, poor Yorick.
It’s the brain, you fool.
The synapse connections
met out of bounds, sparks
you must have learned
as a child. Who is good,
who is not so good, who
should vote, not vote,
breathe, not breathe,
share the earth, molder
in cages. The concept
of division rest in a brain.
I’d give you credit
for not having a racist
big toe. Although... I fear
the boots you might put on.
No racist bone
in your body. Get real.
Look at your heart.
Tricia Knoll is a poet as tired as so many Americans of lies, cruelty, and idiocy.