Brown

BROWN

How do you feel about me that I am just a Brown skin tone? Stomper1, Demon2, Clumsy3?

They say that I was raised to be hateful because of my...skin tone.

You want a wall4!

Wall of profanity!

Wall to separate...

Wall of fortune disjointed, wall to avoid unfortunate...skin tone

I don't care about the color of my skin!

But in the movies, they forgot to mention that the hero had a skin color,

Very different from mine, and I don't care, but at times a skin color seems to dictate the time. On this day, a skin color...I don't want to be

On bad days, a decrepit feeling that I'm just a wrong person, a criminal...

I've been good, college degree, full-time job, productive hobbies. I don't see much of a skin tone there, but if I feel hate or I end up in prison...

If I reiterate fuck systemic oppression, fuck food stamps, fuck CRASH5...skin tone.

I've been desperate lately. Let me blame my...skin tone.

All my flaws, all my bad days...

All my friends want to be gang members, drug addicts, alcoholics... Lately, they've been killing themselves. The cause must be...skin tone.

Destroy our blocks, remodel our parks, dilapidate our homes, then boot us out. Imprison our fathers,

Blame our mothers,

Because we were wrapped in this skin tone

Petulant, we caught the brown reflection off the amniotic sac, I was scared and crying covered in blood.

I think I may have been overcooked in the womb for too long

Some of my homies burnt cinnamon, some of us tanned, others roasted

When we went out into the world, they spit us out at first bite.

When we're done

Beyond the slavery of tone

Hope pursued

Walls scaled

Drug sales

Police shootings

Ruined neighborhoods

Hope lost

I will pull myself up by the straps of my chanclas

Because of my brown skin tone