Mixed Poetry

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