I find it odd That a golliwog
Escorts the ladies to the ball.
Yet
I note
That girls and golliwog alike
Are but dolls
All the same.
In dolly high society,
Who is the true civil party?
For all fine clothes
And civil dress
Hide not heightened awareness
Of difference.
And in emphasizing cultural uniqueness,
Celebrating ethnic roots,
Calling it "racial sensitivity",
Are we not imagining
Division,
The very thing we fear,
Into existence?