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Some of us from Europe Came:
From Africa, Asia too.
Some bore genes already here.
And who knows who kissed who?

Abroad are Americans all;
At home, split Black and White.
But how many drops of black make Black?
And how many of white make White?

And what about those drops of brown
That crowd our counting view
And of that Census color "other"
that cry out "count us too"?

And how count we those drops down deep,
Far out of counting sight?
And should a child of White and Black
Be called a Whack or Blite?

When we stop being Us and Them,
Making We the only way,
Then will that hairy Black and White
Become one Glorious Gray.

And when that Glorious Gray unfurls
Shading all beneath its spread,
Then might our Glorious Boys and Girls
Put Black and White to bed.