Home Grown Pirates
Boxed in
and filled with sand
like a dry ocean
the towering
creosote soaked pillions
take the form
of an old shipwreck
with riggings, planks
and a captain's wheel.
Paid by the commons
for the children to enjoy.
"Aye scalawags all aboard,"
shouts a portly
pint size scoundrel.
Hence heed the call
and came skipping
from his yard
none other than
six year old Suleiman.
"Halt boy,
There are no black pirates"
says the patched eye
little thug
within ear shot
of his parents.
Keeping the world of thievery
squarely in the domain
of whitey.
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