"Some Good Done" by Jennifer Lisa Vest

Oooh, I found a something nice. A beautiful poem by Jennifer Lisa Vest. In times of communal one-dropping there should always be at least one wicked mind to simply speak his/her own personal reality. Go challenge that!



Some Good Done

 Jennifer Lisa Vest

Biologically I am

A mixture More and less

Complicated than I claim to be

Culturally

My mother my father they

Have their own identities

My phenotype is another story

Entirely

Where I grew up and how

Who my ancestors were

And why they died

All conspire to define me

In ways that are beyond even me.

Ambiguity is my home

Either/or does not apply

And my existence defies

So many names and claims

Of place

It would be a lie to check a race

All I know for certain

Is that it matters

That my existence

Confounds you

That your inability to classify me

Bewilders you

And there is some good done

Each time I cause confusion

There is some good done