Response to Summer in Baltimore?

sorry - no matter whether I post as a poem, it always comes out as text , so I am trying again ...

Incident by Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore,

Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,

I saw a Baltimorean

Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,

And he was no whit bigger,

And so I smiled, but he poked out

His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."

I saw the whole of Baltimore

From May until December:

Of all the things that happened there

That's all that I remember.

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