Prejudice

May father's generation
learned from his father's generation
how to hate
according to race.

As a child,
I used to eat nigger babbys candy
and nigger toe nuts.
I thought of these people
as story book characters
not real people.

On the bus with my mother
at age 3
I saw a real Afro American.
"Mommy look! A nigger!"
I announced

I discovered that this lady
had feellings
which I had exposed.
I found that
I cannot hate someone
who I don't even know.

I cannot purposely hurt them.