I offer a lesson to my white comrades
who certainly don’t go out of their way
to read my poems
but might for a moment if I get personal
this one is to the
the dude who has
nothing else to care about
no purpose
no deeper anything
but your whiteness
and what little wealth you lean on
while protecting it at all costs
cause "your family" or at least believe
"family" is being attacked! or silenced!
those of you
who bow down to your god
you believe is on your side
and you who thinks that mental illness
is a difference of view on gender
you know who you are
you think a someone with a dick
who says they are a woman
is a "mental health" crisis
while at the same time believing
your buddy with a dick
who only shoved her once
was just having a bad day
please know
that the moment you kneel at
the feet of your own victimization
is when you made a decision
for Mammon and Ego
instead of Christ
being knee deep
in the sodded landscape
under the Bluewater Bridges
allowing your grief to become one with
the bagpipes and scented candles
and 600 eyeballs all looking to you
and the words that will come out of your microphone
should make you wonder why
it is your voice that is amplified
whether you are being walked home
or you are fending off those with ulterior motives
you still wake up
with a double double
pondering if
you still deserve
birthday sex
without having to ask nicely
or even remembering
you were born on a day that could
be repeated once a year
where you get to be touched
for no other reason besides
being born
so what is the lesson you ask?
i’m not really sure actually
i just knew that if i said i had a lesson for
the WHITE guys
and I posted this hilarious photo of Brandon bowing to
god knows who
that maybe what I wrote
would get their attention before they swipe next
and they would ask themselves
what kind of god are they serving
and maybe one day
maybe they would stop trying to be a leader
and pretending to give people hope
with a microphone and facebook brand update
salvation comes to us all one way or another
but it gets weird for those that bow to their own voices
and look for followers and $3 subscriptions
preying on those that are grieving
