Melting Pot

there are ads on TV
that urge the buying of gold
silver platinum palladium
and all the frightened buyers
are White with one exception
and he’s Black in front of
a golf course he must own

there are ads on TV
that talk of depression
psychosis bipolar one and two
and all the sick users
are White with two exceptions
and they’re both Black
one styles makeup for a wedding
one directs kids in a football game

I used to talk about ads with
a VP of advertising (he was
White) and he used to talk about
how they’d use people of no
obvious ancestry
he called them Tweeners

there are ads on TV
for drugs and foods
and all sorts of sundry products
the colors pair up between
the subject and the background
yellow and blue
red and green

there are ads on TV
for HELOC and man
I don’t know what that is
except it’s got something to do
with having money to fix
your house up and people
in the ads are White
mostly

there are ads on TV
for poor people I guess
feed the children give them hope
for sick people I guess
get them to a clinic
take these AIDS drugs
for old people I guess
get them to a place like home
give them money for a proper burial

and all the people look the same
AI makes them look the same
TV makes them look the same
all the people look the same
the White people the Black people
the Tweeners the Children the Elderly
the Already Dead
the Still Alive

you wouldn’t know the difference
if it bit you in the ass

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onward,
T