white associations

ByRebecca Cory

I’ve been reading Hazel Smith’s The Writing Experiment, and here’s one of the word association poems that I came up with.

white
white wash
white soap
white clean
white whale
white board
white teaching
white knowledge
white supremacy
white people
white flowers
white goodness
white evil
white right
white rightness
white apart
white violence
white blood
white death

white face
face powder
powder kep
dynamo
explosive
disparate
breaking connections
connecting back
back-up
white posse
white innocence

white guilt
white man’s burden
burdensome
who’s burden
what burden
what white
white me

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