Early evening gig
Just a few ears out front
He ponders
Moments of reflection
On the playlist perhaps, when
He and his friends entertain
Or where he is right now
(Like most of us do)
Not an African-American, he,
But an African in America
Left Cote d’Ivoire a decade ago
Maybe second thoughts
About the new promised land
This great country
Where color, race, belief, gender
Will not matter; but still they do
Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA
