Token Brown

October 25, 2023

tell me about your whiteness I don't want to hear
travels in Asia the study of reiki how you laboured
with a doula the souvenirs of plunder
mine it for me
the caucasian in your veins

apply this
like a poultice onto politics
and reading looking at the stars
hold this white skin a sieve
for every story unrelenting POV

your white teeth eat
white lips smile the white brain
dreams of other whites
struggles with mixed race marriage
hatred all that privilege

on Only Fans I pay
to watch you read the paper
eat an apple
walk your dog

 

Kerri Shying

Kerri Shying is the author of four poetry collections, most recently knitting mangrove roots (Flying IslandsPress, 2019) and Know Your Country (Puncher and Wattman, 2021). She is of Wiradjuri and Chinese family and is also a visual and fibre artist and a respected disability advocate

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