Middle class liberal angst
Number one:
Is it more
Or is it less
Racist that I went up
To the counter
In the supermarket
Which was free
Of other customers
And being colleagued
By the nice lady
In the hijab?
Middle class liberal angst
Number two:
Is it more
Or is it less
Racist that I even
Noticed at all?
Not blind to it
Pretending that
I hadn’t spotted
In the first place
She was wearing
Her hijab
Middle class liberal angst
Number three:
Is it more
Or is it less
Racist that we had
Some jolly banter?
Was I more friendly
Than I otherwise
Might have been
Just because
She was wearing
That hijab?
Martin
A W Holmes, Dec 2016
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