Southern Hospitality In Years Gone By? ..... [serious And Silly; Racial Prejudice; Short; A Cautionary Tale] Poem by Bri Edwards

Southern Hospitality In Years Gone By? ..... [serious And Silly; Racial Prejudice; Short; A Cautionary Tale]

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When I microwaved my FRIEND, it brought me to tears;
it also brought to me a sentence of ten hard years.
I would have gotten more time in the slammer, but....
I'm white, he was black, ....and we lived in Alabama.

No offense I mean to any members of another 'race'.
[That's just a cautionary message, to save my 'face'.]
If HE had microwaved ME, the tables would've been turned;
I'd have become a saint to the Klan, and he'd have been burned.

This silly AND serious, and totally made-up, tale....
was started in my head by a note from a PH gal.
'Mandolyn' is also silly. I had asked her if she had any other friend.
'Are they ok to put in the microwave? ' was the note she did send.

(July 28,2014)

Monday, July 28, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: discrimination
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
part of the story is in the poem. even today in 'america' it is 'sad', but probably true, that 'justice' is not always equally distributed among the members of various economic, racial, religious, national-origin, and gender classes who are judged by a jury or just by a judge. this has been particularly true, from what i've heard, in some areas of the southern united states when 'blacks' aka african-americans are on trial for breaking the laws.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Simone Inez Harriman 02 July 2017

A sobering poem about the harsh inequalities in this world. Hoping we can change for the better in our lifetime.

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Eugene Levich 01 August 2014

Y'all done hit the nail on the head, pardner! Funny... and unfortunately very true!

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