What <br />Color-race-ethnicity- <br />Check only one that applies! <br />Did your page turn into? <br />What a painfully effortless answer <br />I see <br />For you <br />And them <br />In your simpler times <br />Of Black and White vision <br />You were Black as night <br />They a page white <br />But me? I’m- <br />Not sure. I can be- <br />Not me- <br />Fo’ Sho’ well what am I? <br />Supposed to be? <br />Too white to stop your <br />Fist and feet and friends and words- <br />And too damn poor to get away from them <br />I see that look in <br />blue-green-brown-grey eyes <br />Above-Even at 60 inches Tall Sergeant! <br />Always above <br />Me? <br />Down here? <br />Melting in this Texas heat <br />Like a box of crayons <br />You can’t use again-can’t distinguish a use for <br />A Crayola de’ Mestizo <br />Especially as I fill out my <br />Scholarship papers <br />Check only one that applies! <br />Cause you sho’ look white ta’ me boy <br />Pinche’ wetto<br /><br />Stanley Vinet<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-question-for-langston-hughes/
