check your baggage before we depart
check your baggage before we depart
by Wolfgang Nibori
consider this my ode to diversity, pretend it’s needed
with so many strains of ethnicity sewn into our global sheath
endless schemes of mindset, identity, characterization
selling each by the bagful at the intellectual check-out stand
cross-pollinating metropolis brimming, swimming in living variables
all of us adding a new stripe to our ever expanding rainbow
at what point do we drop diversity as a concept
so we may see individuals rather than lumps of similarity?
i look forward to that future dawn of prime wisdom rising
allowing us to see more than shadows and shapes, to see the unique
that even the twins among us never can be complete clones
that clones, in the end, remain utopian impossibilities
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