Fair for brown
Yellow for white
Light for black
Dark in the summer
Tan, but not redskin
Beige in winter
(But certainly not as white as)
Vitamin D-ficient and tired
Far from the sun
Blonde for colored
Round, but still slanted
Exotic to be the white boys' mother
Creole for solidarity
Mixed to be full
Diluted for land lottery
Traumatized to know
Displaced to see
Well-spoken to be inarticulate
Fluent to need translation
Melted in the pot
Hot to sip
Spicy for the white man's tongue
Unfamiliar with code switch (not me)
Native to be remembered
Recent to be mourned
Stealth to notice theft
United to see the island
Far from home
Settled at a distance
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