Never open your mouth
When you can breath through your nose.
For when you do you may convey your thoughts
And we don’t need anything as repugnant as those.
Black people are not a hate group.
People don’t like to be only a means to an end.
Folks tend to get wary when their humanity has been secondary
And history that can’t reach us won’t teach us, my friend.
Your suggestion that the Holocaust numbers need to be reexamined
For a possible revision downward
Is phrased in a way to appear reasonable
But trust us, we understand what we heard.
And “getting the hell away from black people”
Is a message that we all read loud and clear
Segregation, apartheid, or ethnic cleansing
Is the antithesis of what a democracy holds dear.
You probably will claim to have been canceled
When newspapers are no longer displaying
In easy view, that “Dilbert” thing that you do
So brace yourself for the tiny violins we’ll be playing.