麻豆约拍

Recompense

remember how Janet get up in history class
& say she not black
& we laugh & tell her fi sit her black backside down
but Janet say
we too fool for school; she half Scottish
& somebody
tug on Janet plait & say look how yuh head tough
& Janet say
don't make that fool you; naked eye don't see the blood
in 18something
her great great great somebody step off a boat
& dig up
her great great great somebody out the cane field to test
the sweetness
of local sugar (no sense buying puss in a bag)
& she not
letting Scotland get away scot-free; she laying claim
to that money
that build bronze statues & columned empires on cobblestone streets
& she say
bet you when Scotland issue apology & say all half-breeds line up here
for recompense
all a we who black & a bray like ass going start sing different tune
but she going be first in line;
all along she singing the same thing: there is money in this blood
money in this blood