Clara B. Jones


Living Wabi-Sabi While Eating Fried Chicken

Amber may be narcissistic, but therapy won't help because she's moving to Stockholm where no rules apply.

Morgan invited Amber to a #BlackLivesMatter rally so she bought a kinky wig and told her mother Power is post-racial after texting Rachel Dolezal to ask her how whites darken their skin.

Amber chose a skin color matching her father's Buick®, but Morgan told her she wouldn't fit in since race is socially-constructed not self-determined.

Amber's father called her crazy so Morgan hooked her up with an African doctor who ate lunch in Bojangles® and treated black girls for free in exchange for the Tailgate Special plus seven extra biscuits.

Amber asked Morgan if she thought she was crazy, and Morgan said No, but I think you need help.

Morgan told Amber to go to Ghana instead of Sweden where blacks are commodified because of the tensions between North and South.

Amber said flying to Africa is expensive, and Stockholm is cooler so she wouldn't be hot wearing a wig.

Clara B. Jones practices poetry in Silver Spring, MD (USA). As a woman of color, she writes about identity, culture, & society and conducts research on experimental poetry, as well as, radical publishing. She is author of three chapbooks and one volume, and her poetry, reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in various venues.
 
 
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