Words are infectious

A red truck speeds down the road with its hood all the way up.
My neighbor wishes the driver ill and calls him a nigger. “No, really, he is and I hope there’s no more,”
and then the mexican staggers off.

I was hoping nigger close your hood,
but instead there were shouts
and the truck tears ass in reverse
back down the road
being chased by a blue car.

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