“Shades” of Clay


Publicly I yearn to flee

Whitey’s face e’er haunting me

Shuffling along to the bank, I trek

Reparations, a gub-mint check

Shameless clown, without a doubt

(I may be brown, but I’m not out)

Bondage yore, late ethnic craze

Weeping sore in present daze.

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