"'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 was Russian-born---his DNA also of African 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 MishanPath's bed."
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