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Paper Dolls at Graduation

by Ranjini Thaver

I look into the audience
There they are
Two-dimensional
women and men

Strangely,
they are all white
Clad in black suits and white shirts
Euro-male-like

They look morbid
And I wonder why?

Is it because
they are academics
Schooled in rationality
to understand life
Emotions subjugated
Except as intellects?

Is it Social-Darwinism
white superior
black inferior
Centered in the Lower brain?

Is it that women
dressed like men
think they are liberated?

Is it me?
emotional colonialism
projected onto others?

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