Ghetto Haiku (Chapter 7)

A yuppie bumps
into me on the bus
hardly notices
A Moment later
whispers "excuse me"
when he brushes shoulders
with a well dressed man holding the paper.
The bus ride teaches me more than you think
I think more than you teach me.

In this poem by Antonio Cares he speaks on how a simple thing that happens on the bus between him and a yuppie changed how he viewed certain people. And he sees how he is being treated differently then someone else that is a business man. He is saying just because he wears certain clothes and doesn't look like hes going any were like work or something like that doesn't mean he is any less then the next man. He has feelings as well and does notice simple rude things like that, and the man probably doesn't think that the man in the baggy clothes even cares or realized how rude he was to him. I think this poem shows a strong message on how some stereotypes are still going on in this day and how people treat others are still bad. I do like that in the image that goes with this poem the mans face is blocked out, so you can tell his nationality. You never know he could be a white man, the stereotypes that only black people dress ghetto or have no future is tested in this piece. Because the man was treated bad probably not on his race but by how he was dressed.