The neighbor causing raucous with his plier
or it’s the day
The cat abandoned by snooty
Neighbor or his girlfriend
long gone, sits like a queen on your patio, cushions her throne
abandoned by white owner
they are here only to disturb your peace
She marching in your yard
Broom stick in hand
Chasing the cat now abandoned
When asked who are you
Looks at your brown skin
asks, where is the owner of the house?
I need to talk
I am the owner
talk to me
trumped, runs to her house
broom in hand
Cat abandoned
Wanders my yard
last 15 or 20 years
I do not feed her
my bird seeds a collateral
she stares me down
on my deck, asking where is the owner?
Her pedigree, a white owner
slaves priding in the names
of long gone plantation owners
We are pedigreed
Theiry, Hawthorne’s,
Pressley’s, McLisher’s
Washington’s, Brown’s, and of course
Smith’s