Color Me Whatever Poem by Kyle Schlicher

i am white.

i don't apologize for that fact.

caucasian
is the term
used
by the census taker.

no matter.

i am white,
poor,
disabled
old,
and
quite
possibly
i am
dying of cancer
or heart disease
at
this
very moment.

so, for demographic reasons
go ahead and
color me
whatever
color you wish.

but,
please
color us
all
the same color
because
we're all the same
after
the blame is spread around.

and today
for me
the blame stops here.


(9-22-2016)