Black in Japan

Being black in Japan

means you have more white spaces

on the day-night trains.

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The darkness of U.S.

allows yellow jaundice to

shine its rising sun.

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Empty seats allow

black thoughts to make room for small

breezes of knowledge.

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That Ainu minstrels

shouldn’t be doing Doo-Wop

on Nippon TV.

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That the jet blackness

of Naomi Osaka

not be a shade light.

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That the Shogun kept

no black slaves be an excuse

for all other ones.

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That racist white face

teaching black black face hatred

is not a shoeshine.

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That racism is a

presumption and is not a

a very good gene.