On Whiteness

White fries, white chicken, whitbeer. 

White bedspread. White walls. White wardrobe. 

White Joni Mitchell identifies with a black man. 

White supremacist talking to Charles Barkley on the internet. 

White coke in a bag. 

White girl listening to Nina Simone radio. 

Whiteness without hostile intent but nonetheless hostile. 

White gallery walls.

Whiteness does not eat or sleep. 

What does whiteness need?

On what does whiteness feed?

What can whiteness witness?

Writing whiteness is like breathing air.

What’s more intimate than your skin?