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accidentally occidental-
check the box white
because even middle eastern
is the classification they
chose for us. midddle of what?
east of where?

no matter how much a single other
can escape the fences placed around them
they are first the other
second a human being
and last again a mutant.  

edward said taught me that
when i wasn’t ready to learn.
by the end of world war one
europe had colonised eighty
percent of the earth.

the global majority painted
as barbarians lathered in libraries
of false fiction. even the white
passing only accepted until exposed
in an airport x-ray machine,
walking streets after a suicide bomb,
on tv in ruthless self flagellation.  

truths are illusions
about which
one has forgotten
that this is what they are.
white passing
person of color.

diaspora is a song
masquerading as a single word,
song by the ghosts who want us home.