Colin Kennedy Donovan
 
 
 

Complicity

 
 
 
 

Yellow traffic light Red dyke runs across Broadway White cop drives up fast Writes ticket cites public good Ignores challenge from white queer Adamant faggot Questions motive talks of rape Happening right then somewhere while this white cop claims bosses orders crackdown time I witness standing in the rain night wind blowing Don't challenge loudly Allow silence to protect Me white between red and blue

This poem was previously published in the Winter 2002-03 issue of
Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research and Education.

  (c)Colin Kennedy Donovan 2003