Papa Ain’t in the Top Left
My skin is wrinkled cloth
Indigo paper child
Sunburnt polyester
Sixty percent cotton
Interweaved with nylon
Sunburnt polyester
Sixty percent cotton
Interweaved with nigga.
Papa part of that too.
Papa said that I’m his
Indigo paper child.
Slave boy love his massa
Take care of us real good
And giveth all shelter
To raise the family
E(xcept for the last one)
For my brother we fight!
Laughing behind our backs
Accentuated in
God’s favorite thread count.
About the Contributor
Nick Houston, Editor-in-Chief
Nick Houston is a Senior English major from Slidell, Louisiana. This is Nick's second year on the Delta Statement staff. A part from school, Nick is in...