1595: What Year Was Heaven Desegregated? | Jeffrey McDaniel

[exceptindreams]

"What Year Was Heaven Desegregated?"
Jeffrey McDaniel

Watching the news about Diallo, my eight year-old cousin, Jake,

asks why don’t they build black people

with bulletproof skin? I tell Jake there’s another planet, where

humans change colors like mood rings.

You wake up Scottish, and fall asleep Chinese; enter a theatre

Persian, and exit Puerto Rican.

Comments

[urbanjumbled]

this is incredibly powerful, thanks for the great read.
i wasn't expecting this from mcdaniel - i always had him pegged as a sort of romantic, the quiet world was the first (and only) poem i knew of his.

[secretsolitaire]

Wow.

[exploring_alex]

Love.

[42months]

all sorts of yes to this poem

[rosadina]

I read this last night and still don't know what to say. Amazing.