my birth certificate says I was born
in the great state of
Kansas
but yet I remember
being told to
‘go back to Africa’
as if I had planned it
as if I had planned
to look African
but claim American
how can I ‘go back’ to
some place that I’ve never
been?
truth remains that
I can’t
and this is the dilemma
which makes me into an
AFRICAN’T-AMERICAN’T
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