<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oh How To Find Silence In the World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being spotted in the color of skin,<br>why I take care in San Francisco,<br>waiting for the bus to Iowa.<br>They say racial prejudice is strong,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Negros and not whites kawawa,<br>and because of this they will revolt.<br>I shiver and shiver from fear and hunger <br>because I just landed from Tokyo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Negro came into the station— <br>naka-African hairdo; he holds a small<br>whip: it’s scary to look, so<br>I did not look at him. Kumakalansing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the metal on the strings of his shoes<br>and he shouts, “Peace, brothers!” Smiled showing<br>white teeth. Looked at me— <br>maybe he laughed at what he saw—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> a tiny dayuhan, dark and from<br>some lupalog. Upside down<br>my insides went in fright and pulled<br>a cigarette so the redness of my face</div><div style="margin:10px 0">wouldn’t show. I nahalata<br>that the Whites there too were quiet<br>so quiet, unable to speak in front<br>of that Negro. Only when he left returned</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the normalcy in the station—others<br>read again, neighbors gossiped again,<br>laughter, the janitor sweeped again.<br>After a while that Negro passed again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">two white Americanas on each arm, <br>blonde, their beauty with no equal.<br>The janitor stopped sweeping.<br>I thought, “So this is racial prejudice.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cirilo+Bautista">Cirilo Bautista</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567266" data-title="Oh How To Find Silence In the World de Cirilo Bautista" data-description="Being spotted in the color of skin, why I take care in San Francisco, waiting for the bus to Iowa. They say racial prejudice is strong, Negros and not whites kawawa, and because of this they will revolt. I shiver and shiver from fear and hunger ..."></div> </div> </div>

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