For the Newly Elected School Board Member
By Marie Tozier
from Anywhere but Here
Welcome to the ancestral land
Of my people. We
Already know you:
Bossy white woman
Thinks she
Owns the world
Rules the school
Wags her finger
In our face
Preaches love
If only we'd listen.
Copyright Credit: Marie Tozier, "For the Newly Elected School Board Member" from Open the Dark. Copyright © 2020 by Marie Tozier. Reprinted by permission of Marie Tozier.
Source: Open the Dark (Boreal Books, 2020)