The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Simian White

Every once in a generation
is birthed an otherling so white
it offends the sense of natural and healthy
befuddled parents trace their palms
and study the water hole milkman
grabbed by its foot and raised for inspection
they cast aside what shouldn't be
though it finds a nipple and defies
the failure to thrive or conform
to the crack of walnuts amazed
by spontaneous spasms of jazz until
utility demands a name and so a birthright
is bestowed by the unsure and surrounded
by a village of idiots that bear rocks
to make right by forced exile and eschewment
he should have run away
far far far til upon a tribe he tripped
foreign soil on which to endemic be
and sit cross-armed with a stick
white paint beneath sullen eyes
holding dead flowers each mother's day
ever an evolutionary paradox at play.
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