There Is A Lady Claiming She

There Is A Lady Claiming She

There is a lady claiming she

Is an Afro-American

Yet even so looks white to me

As if she were Caucasian.

Some say it doesn’t matter what

Her parents say she is, although

You might as well accept it that,

It is the way she feels it’s so.

Her hair is kinky, kind of blonde,

And she has got a tawny skin;

Could be if she has had it tanned

As possibly it might’ve been.

In college, I have heard it said,

She sued because of being white

Which was the opposite instead

Of what she says has to be right.

I saw her in an interview

Explain that she was short of cash

So she decided then to sue,

And saying, didn’t bat a lash.

And, being someone in Spokane,

Head of the NAACP,

There was no reason to explain

Her racial inconsistency.

It suited her to be white when

She’d take advantage of the fact,

But now is now and then was then

So circumstances have impact.

For sure she says that she is black

And seeing how it is she’d feel,

Why should she have to take it back—

For aren’t feelings what is real?