Poem: A God-Fearin’ Tan

Poem: A God-Fearin’ Tan

Tim Mills

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billy bob banana clip

who was revered

throughout the

fatherland

for ridin’ late at

night

with his merry old

band

he was

oh so sure

that’s what he hear’d

he was

oh so pure

but he flipped his lid

n dropped his fryin’ pan

n his bacon burned

on the day he learned

that as a little kid

at the orphanage

that his lineage

had truly been hid

oh heed this tale

of a knight

who’s plumb

fulla spite

cuz he’s

an angry white man

with a god-fearin’ tan

in the broad daylight

he can veil his hide

beneath that hood

but that ain’t gonna

do him any damn good

cuz he’s still

an angry white man

with a god-fearin’ tan

when billy bob’s

great uncle alice heard

his carbuncle’d ass

fired off a big turd

with pungent malice

though he consorted

with scalawags

notorious chiggers

n grave robbin’

ditch diggers

still he proclaimed

at least i weren’t no

fargin’ . . . . . .

go figure

why skin tone

trips the trigger

though we’re all just

flesh

n blood

n bone

nearly all of us are

producers

while a handful are

seducers

oh heed this tale

of a knight

who’s plumb

fulla spite

cuz he’s

an angry white man

with a god-fearin’ tan

in the broad daylight

he can veil his hide

beneath that hood

but that ain’t gonna

do him any damn good

cuz he’s still

an angry white man

with a god-fearin’ tan

there then was

that quickie strike

in town

ev’ry hamburger joint

was down

the number one demand

of all

the hired hands

was a big pay hike

n that was somethin’

that the bosses surely

didn’t like

n billy bob’s boy was

sittin’ with his

fellow workers on the

driveway curb

doin’ his very very

best to disturb

the company’s profit

but billy bob shouted

to junior get off it

but junior knew better

than his old man

‘bout how

to make ends meet

with a god-fearin’ tan

oh heed this tale

of a knight

who’s plumb

fulla spite

cuz he’s

an angry white man

with a god-fearin’ tan

in the broad daylight

he can veil his hide

beneath that hood

but that ain’t gonna

do him any damn good

cuz he’s still

an angry white man

with a god-fearin’ tan [2015]

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