The Brown Lagoon

In this lagoon, Brooke Shields
is a brown girl,

and I am the brown boy
who rubs up against her

until one day she finally
acquiesces,

the barrio lagoon being
such a hard place to raise a child,

we flee to the white lagoon
where we stand out like sore thumbs,

and they, the forever they,
grab our thumbs and twist them.