- The Return
racial prejudice lives opens up its eyes hibernates in an intermediary zone mid history conventions like a divine text standard millenarian con job and the kingdom of stupidity congenital at birth emotional intellectual of the soul breath of the bared skinned monkey
but the audacity the panache the afro affront of the black man he who talks back retorts in legitimate attack stylishly blunt not beating around the bush and no longer swallowing the given-notion that racism has been ushered into a limbo
walled up with limbo so that the squally dregs of the niggers wouldn't crush it into a white powder immemorial marmoreal a limbo which provided providing shelter to racism which in time returns halt about- face returns in public visitation getting wind of the air invigorated by young leaves and eager not to see the infinite black spaces where puny stars coruscate
Ronald Augusto is author of Disco and Puya, volumes of poems. He lives in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Isis McElroy is an assistant professor of Afro-Brazilian literature and culture at Arizona State University.