Brother Prejudice Poems

How do I start this story, 
Let’s begin with an optimistic reader,
Who happens to be my brother,
I got to tell you I really revere him...

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We Can Be A Light
Sal was sixteen when he committed suicide. 
A loving son and brother. 
You could count on Sal when you needed to...

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I could not forget the day I left my old hometown of Saint Louis (San Luis, Baguio City). Every eye was staring at me like...

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And were brutally murdered,
Why would my name be in no newspaper?
No picture of me, on TV, no none at all.
Unless, I were a horrid criminal,...

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My friend had said
Oh! Father
 What color 
My eyes my skin's shades
 Of many MELATONIN (what)
 I have a white mother 
And yet my father's
...

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Compare me not with my brothers;
One common roof, we only share
Not the same story, not the same purpose.
One story differs from another;
We serve different purposes.
Not...

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Dirty Hands

My white hands are dirty
Even if I don’t realize
My burdens light like my skin
I haven’t had the same trials

The house I live in
my manicured...

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Be quiet quiet quiet 
Shush shush shush
We’ve spoken too much
We haven’t listened enough

Black men and women
It’s not easy to be brave
Oppression and inequality 
make you...

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book of face
I see your quick on that trigger. your words are  offers on man's flawed self righteous altar 
Of the vanity, and sullied...

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How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags,...

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...The Nephilim fell, and he stocked forwards
to the other one lying on the floor,
the man there gave him a much resigned look,
then came the echo...

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...He walked up and kissed her head so softly,
then said, “Good news, I’m off for the next few weeks.”
She said, “Mmm…and I’m betting that you’re...

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I
I tried not to mention the crime
Siblings, it is high time
America stopped self-flagellation,
Self-hate, self-abnegation

II
I feel for him, brother George ("of the earth")
I came close, but...

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When God created this world, everything was nice and dandy and perfect,
But the disobedience of Adam and Eve introduced sin and sowed defect,
Soon thereafter sin...

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I forgot he was White

 

I met a man on the train

A hundred miles from Tennessee

I studied him meticulously

Hoping he wouldn’t sit next to me

So...

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