Friday, April 9, 2021

Jim Crow Scarecrow

Abrams eyed her bathroom glass, 
preparing for TV shows. 
She carefully coiffed her hair, 
combing the furrowed cornrows. 

Suddenly ideas sprang 
from beneath those locks of furry faux. 
She will build a man and say he's kin 
to slavery, America's peculiar sin. 

The principles of the founding 
are unworthy of propounding, 
so erect the Jim Crow scarecrow 
and test the depth of fear by sounding 
"How shall the crows feed upon the land 
with this straw man watching,
built by the white man's hand?"

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