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Too White?

Too White?

Bathing to be brown

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Gary A Schlueter
Jul 12, 2023
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Sunbathing

My skin is too white.

Sunbathing

makes me browner

Sunbathing takes time

White to rose to beige than brown

Sunbathing says

I’m too white

and proves to all

there is such a thing as too white.

and we whiteys know it

That’s why we pray for hours

prone mostly naked humble before the Sun

in order to become copper toned.

There is such a thing

as too white.

Look to …

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