"'Never, ever, get any girl pregnant,'"
"they told me. I would have replied, 'Don't worry.'
"But the explanation would have precipitated a wild flurry
"of rage, triggering the prejudice then, in them, regnant.
"Misha's DNA presented African and Russian descent---
"which would have given them even more to resent.
"In the days and weeks that followed after
"their dictum, it provoked in us the most raucous laughter:
"yes we laughed at the words they had said,
"while we were naked, after Love, in Misha's bed."
J-Called