DON'T TELL ME, I THINK I ALREADY KNOW
(for Black Europeans)

by Philip Lewis

You told me awhile ago they had some Afro-Polacks,
or some indigens living somewhere in Portugal.
You didn't tell me what the indigens looked like, but don't
I think I already know.
They're probably dark, or maybe they aren't so dark,
they don't have to be dark.
And the Afro-Portuguese? The Afro-Polacks?
I don't need to guess.
I'll bet the cops are always in their neighborhoods,
and I wonder what their houses look like.
Don't tell me,
I think I already know what they look like.
Do their women desire white men? I bet they do,
and aren't the local whores spitting
on the cream of their manhood?
I'll bet"their" government makes promises like,
"We'll take you in, you're Polacks now, or Portuguese,"
       or whatever,
But I bet they can't find jobs,
and they probably can't vote,
and they probably "lie" and "steal things" too,
and they've a "large concentration of AIDS"
and they are all "dope-pushing drunks,"
and the young ones hate being blacks, and
want to bewhite Polacks andwhite Portuguese.
Do they wear Malcolm X ball-park caps?
Or do they do any of the above?

Or worse?

Don't tell me, please, I think I already know.

They do.