Poetry of Issue #8        Page 13

The non-significance of SILENCE

If a colored man falls in the forest does anyone hear the sound?
Society retorts he is an afican-american not a colored man

If a Negro man falls in the forest does anyone hear the sound?
Society retorts he is an afican-american man not a Negro man

If an African American man falls in the forest does anyone hear the sound?
Society retorts       SILENCE