Forbidden Fruit

Eyes of sea-blue and carmined lips,
Light-blonde hair and albino skin,
Mae West figure and heavy hips,
And, "the least of men."

"Dynamite sweater" and sky-blue skirt,
White breasts gleaming through knitted wool;
Dark skin, gray pants and sky-blue shirt
Was the other fool!

Practicing all of woman's wiles --
Flotsam and jetsam in God's great flow;
A white girl laughs and a dark man smiles
As the sun sinks low.

She is forbidden to all of his kind --
Separated by chasms deep --
Fenced in -- walled in -- but they don't mind:
Well, rope is cheap ...