Conceived at a 3D Porn Movie

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Blain was different even from his sisters
born very black
to a mixed couple marriage
like a thunderhead ready to crack
dropped suddenly on top of a munitions dump
looking back the way a comet’s ion tail
looks back on the comet as it rushes from the sun
it seems so obvious
his name
so close to blame in fact
if you say it in a slur it sound the same as
blame
his mother clever and engaging
we don’t stand on ceremony come on over any time
old fashioned folksy talk like that was it to mask
the terror of her past the fatherly advice to stay
sweet be nice and quiet every night
maybe probably who knows people are so simple
she did not try a fool’s ruse
like the white girl who claimed
a 3D porn movie bore her a black baby
while her white husband was deployed
but Blain was born toward the end of a two year stint
his father gone to a gated community up north
for work
when he returned there was Blain
life’s do-it-yourself built in blaming post
no social worker came when
Blain was whacked each time his parents
nearly constant anger needed to spark stone on flint
if he was playing in the yard
maybe admiring the crazy shine and depth of brown
a horse chestnut achieves
lying on the ground in late September and bounced
soundlessly off the bodies of the girls he terrorized
he took off across the yard every time the front door
opened his mother running with a frying pan
to ring his bell with as she aphorized
until he fell and lay there nice and quiet for a while
among the chestnuts
in their green spiky skin shaded by the tree

Bobby Steve Baker

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