Coatrack of Invisibility.
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.
-Langston Hughes, 1964
In Response to Langston Hughes’ Visitors to the Black Belt:
I live on the other side of
History’s railroad tracks—
My own version of here,
not far from your side of the tracks.
You talk about
down in the south.
I live my life
here in the south.
The one drop rule renders me
a man without a race.
On the inside,
I fight the same as you.
Identity
confused by
lack of features
similar to any race.
I am hanging myself daily on a coat rack of invisibility.
That is who I am.
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