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    Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes
    Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes
    Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes
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    Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes

    By Teresa Fowler

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    Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes is a collection of poems about growing up in a world you do not fit into. The poetry is literal, intimate, and often humorous. The author shares her unique perspectives on sex and race and her experiences of prejudice from what are often the least expected places.

    Diaspora Dysphoria and Miss Appropriation speak of what it is like to be ethnically homeless in a world where it matters more than ever to feel like you belong. Uncivil Service, Nobody Gets A Pass, and Soul-Mush convey the despair of realising that the prejudice that scarred many young lives often doesn't end just because our school days are over. Mixed/Other, Flat-Pack Diversity, and Woke Bloke poke gentle fun at a world that isn't as unbiased as it likes to think it is. The Song Of The Pugilist Tree, Twisted Sister and The Life She Should Have Had are deeply personal odes about the challenges the author's family have faced and the impact it has had on her life.

    The poems in this collection are revealing and honest but ultimately hopeful, and may make you reconsider everything you thought you knew about those who are Mixed/Other.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBLKDOG Publishing
    Release dateAug 8, 2020
    ISBN9781393952619
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      Book preview

      Mixed Rhythms and Shady Rhymes - Teresa Fowler

      MIXED RHYTHMS AND SHADY RHYMES

      MIXED RHYTHMS

      AND SHADY RHYMES

      TERESA FOWLER

      Copyright © 2019 Teresa Fowler.

      This edition published in 2019 by BLKDOG Publishing.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher.

      All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      www.blkdogpublishing.com

      Contents

      Mixed/Other

      Diaspora Dysphoria

      Belong

      ...ish.

      Duality

      Fetish

      Flat-pack Diversity

      Get Back to Your Own Country

      I Too Have a Dream...

      The Song of the Pugilist Tree

      Soul-Mush

      They Say

      Twisted Sister

      Uncivil Service

      Woke Bloke

      Heinz 57

      What Old Me Wishes Young Me Knew

      Of Being Other

      Sally Shine

      The House Always Wins

      Nobody Gets a Pass

      The Life She Should Have Had

      The Colour Of My Bravery

      Miss Appropriation

      Nice ‘N’ Easy 83

      Mixed/Other

      It’s the box I tick when I apply for job

      because I always have to inform

      them of my ethnic origin

      on their stupid bloody form.

      They never ask if my white bit

      is English, American or European

      but always assume my black bit

      is from Africa or The Caribbean.

      Well... my dad was a Black Canadian,

      and in England, that’s far from the norm

      so what exactly did you learn

      from your stupid bloody form?

      Diaspora Dysphoria

      Diaspora

      dysphoria.

      I don’t have

      no people.

      My heart doesn’t feel black

      but my soul’s not lily white

      People see I don’t fit in

      using more than just their sight.

      It’s not enough to say

      I have a race and that it’s Bi.

      That’s just something to call us

      and we all know it’s a lie.

      Diaspora

      dysphoria.

      Tell me,

      who’s my people?

      If you use the ‘One Drop’ theory

      then I’m just as black as Dad,

      but if I say I’m White, like my Mum,

      I’d be seen as something bad.

      I’d be accused of shunning

      my ethnic heritage

      but the same people claim my light skin

      affords me some privilege.

      Diaspora

      dysphoria

      I don’t have

      no people.

      The PC term is Bi

      but I prefer to say I’m Mixed.

      My scattered family history

      is a fact that can’t be nixed.

      Canada was a melting pot

      of slavery and Native tribes.

      Why assume I’m made of equal parts

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