Lauren's+Poetry+Page

Lauren's Poetry Page

__I Am __ By: Lauren McCutcheon

**White, ** blonde, blue eyed labeled. A friend, a sister, and //respectful.// A __nerd__ in school, along With being kind and **strong**. Labeled as __dumb__ for For my //blonde// hair I adore.

From many places My **family** can be traced. Wales, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, and England.

From many //places// I’ve come But my ethnic groups all are sum, Of one thing the __same__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The assimilation that came, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">From emigrating so far **away** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">That we just said okay.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Lost many //customs// and traditions marks, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">But I can still find my family’s __birthmark.__

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">White, but my **race** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Means nothing, for I embrace <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Who I am by the way My __culture__ of today has raised me to //pray//. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">I am a //degenerate//. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">I am a **native**. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">We came here by __boat__, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">At different //times// and **places**. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">One is //fit// to breed, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">The other is **not** fit to reproduce. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">My mother is a //WASP//, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">My father is an **immigrant**. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">We are the //perfect// race, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">We do **//not//** deserve to live. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">My ancestors from Ireland and Scotland, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Were called names such as, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Moron, //mongrel//, and imbeciles. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">But my ancestors from <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Wales, Netherlands, Germany, and England <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Were not. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">They were called **fitted** families, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">And the Nordic types. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Many things have //changed//, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">My whole family still **remains**. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Not //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> judge by each other, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; text-align: center;">Neither **defectives** nor natives. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">I’m A Half-Caste <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">By: Lauren McCutcheon <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are neither // European // or ** Aborigine ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are known as the lost generation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Told to be an // unwanted // group <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Taken away from family and friends <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Sent away to far away places just as ** Molly ** and ** Dasiy ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Put into // camps // and forced to assimilate <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The European ways from religion to language <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Only to be put to work <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">For cheap labor and servants <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are children of the ward <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Made t be ** segregate ** and never // intergrated // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Although they try to justisfy their ways <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Saying “its only for your good” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">That does not exempt their actions <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are the children of the lost generation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Forced by the government to change <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are not white or aborigine <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">You are ** half-castes **
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