Half Coloured Bath
Half coloured Bath
Bath is the only place
I have met a man who is half white
and not half black
who waved the flag of the
Old Republic
like he knew what it was to oppress
I wonder what he did at school
did he deny his colour and right
to be a man
or did he know it better
to write his way
into history as the big
guy without knowing who
he was?
Ashley you man
you have no knowing of whether
your are a porn man
or a letter of bossman
J F W Cooling who knew
when to say it was better
to see the writing on the wall
than to take back the work
of man in his fingers.
I do not know you
but you are the one
who is mistaken in believing
he is black – you are
witting and woefully
stagnant with pond leaves
in your hair. It took a long
time to find you and now I know
what it takes to be black in Bath
half coloured hair and a jaw for writing
junk on your facebook page
Ash Browne.
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