7 Aug 2013

Negritude

Image from madamenoire.com


I love everything about you -
not least the impossible blackness of your skin
and the way you walk bare-foot 
at the cocktail party
arousing
a mixture of desire and disapproval
in your white host who fantasises
about your 'exotic otherness'
but fears
you might laugh 
at his nakedness.

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