How Racist is Poetry?

This is not a poem, it is a complete failure as a poem, but I am trying to say something, and poetry is the only language I understand.

 

I don’t mean some

hip-hop-spoken-word-sistah

slam poetry.

 

But the kind of poetry

who’s fans

probably like

classical music,

ballet,

Monet,

Picasso,

and Verdi

and folksy old

white man poetry.

 

Every word,

a letter at a time,

is it building

and rebuilding patriarchy?

racial superiority?

Am I some sort of code

or coder

or blank paper

or a blank white sheet

over me

 

Is it?

Am I?

 

How much more

should I say? Have I even spoken?

Why does this have so many questions?

How racist is the question?