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06 Jan 11 - 10:21 PM (#3068989) Subject: Lyr Add: Racial Musings (Agatha Christie) From: Q (Frank Staplin) RACIAL MUSINGS (Agatha Christie) Presumptive is Man to claim the right To arbitrate between God's creatures so And place a gulf between the Black and White Deeper than sea or ocean waters flow. So strange it seems, this unpigmented pride, The paleness of a skin that knows not sun... Men are all built of bone; How hard then to decide If they are Apes or Men When life is done! Some think, and more than one, That coffee-coloured children meet the case, It is our duty so to take one's fun That the resulting mixture has a face That nicely illustrates Mendelian lore. Oh, coffee-coloured world, You'll be a BORE. Satiety but no variety. A BORE. A BORE. A BORE. Agatha Christie, 1973, Poems, Dodd, Mead & Company. |