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      December 3, 2009Why Do They Call Bill Clinton the First Black President?Idris Goodwin

      Perhaps its
      Baptist Donkey rides
      Mom trailer trips
      to McDonalds
      Arkansas tire swings
      Ya’ll come back now
      and smothered biscuits
       
      cant keep it in his pants
      wink and a finger gun
      Mr. Blue Suit
      Dangling cigar ethos
      chomped dead by
      wise crackers
       
      The degenerate
      Half brother showing up
      hat in hand
       
      saxophone cheeks
       
      Arsenio Hall’s high pitch giggle
      Maya Angelou inaugurates
      Toni Morrison seals the deal
       
      Shady-gate black shadow
      real estate shenanigans
       
      The don’t ask don’t tell
      Matter-of-fact don’t ask
      Slick Willie stuff
       
      Perhaps they mean black
      like burning sand
      smokestack
      scud missile
      bleak
       
      NAFTA NATO
      Outsourced
      downsized
      Nike made silicon chips
      Superhighway
       
      Yugo Bosnian
      Somalia Operation
      Desert Fox
       
      Kick in the door
      flag in the dirt
       
      Pirate’s patch black
      Ak-47 black
      007’s bow tie black
      black like the absence of color
       
      black. maybe
      that’s what they mean

      from #31 - Summer 2009

      Idris Goodwin

      “I come from a long line of hard working, hard playing, quick witted Midwest African Americans that taught me the correlation between work and dream. I write poems because there are few things more satisfying.”