James Edward Lee Sr. Poet Dramatic Monologue

Melatonin Man Woman-My SpokenWord

I am of the brown persuasion
 I am golden
 Tan I am 
a man a woman 
I am King
 I am queen
 I am the color of the sun 
I am energy fortunate am 
I whom
 I am needed
 I am not of the land 
I am from the sky
 I Trans Am my hair Woolen
 I am bright in the light
 though!  My skin is darkening
Who. whose am I
 I am he who is a king
 I am queen
 various persuasion 
very issues
 in spite I am of radiance 
I am light
 I am the only nationality race
 That's been named by my European brothers
What gives them the right
Many names have I
 Darkness 
Colored
 Black 
Afro-American
 African American 

Melatonin I am 
America you name us not
I know who and whose I am
Melatonin 
Not who you say I am 
You can't rename me...
every 10 years through the Census Bureau
 I am a king 
I am not darky, colored, black, Afro-American,
God knows my I mean I don't you want to talk to you again African American my people case of Middle Class amnesia I am not a black persuasion I am not the color of the shoe I am melatonin with radiant and divinity and variances of brown tan crimson beige you I am melatonin I am a king and a child of God so his name that you deem on me every 10 years for the Census Bureau America that's not my name I am melatonin and God knows my name


Melatonin man woman God knows your name

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