TheBanyanTree: LITTLE MOUSE~

[smack58 at nycap.rr.com]

Dedicated to my sons who are grown men now but had to live the torture of being racially mixed children.  I wrote this years ago after my oldest had a specific incident with a terrible bully.

LITTLE MOUSE~


Hello little mouse!
Are you some rats little child?
Because if you are,
I won't love you anymore.
                      Anonymous

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Mommy, why did Robbie
call me a 
nigger?

Oh, I don't know, son.
Maybe he was angry
at you--

Mommy, 
what does it mean?
He says 
he has to beat me up.

He has to beat you up?

Yeah, 'cause I'm a nigger,
my son said 
through a mouthful
of after school snack.