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Is poetry also

like young babies and regressed patients

preverbal?

There are mix-ups

like subject matters

about which externality

and internality

cannot be decided

Is it called white privilege

these clean sheets:

|a horrid empty space|?

|a friendly expanse|?

|harmonious mix-up|?

Your white is not my white

pro/intro-jection is its mechanism

seeming already to decide

about privilege it has nothing to say

about race

projection of bad | object

introjection of good | subject

these aggressive renderings

sub/ob-ject leave

no space

for mix-ups

and silence becomes something to

include in conversations

it’s not enough to want to talk

about race

that’s what

being

preverbal means

not enough to want

to talk

enough to want

want