define:

what makes an object what it is?

is a chair a chair because we sit on it?
or do we sit on it because its a chair?

question: two men sleep in the bed together. are they gay? say they sleep naked. are they gay now? if one wakes up with the other's penis in his mouth, are they gay? are they gay because of this or is it because of their gayness that this happened?

i'm sitting on a countertop as i write this, does that make it a chair?
or maybe i just don't got no home training.

point is: do definitions define us or are we the writers of our own definitions?
Am i Tarrancce because i was told so or because i've defined to be such.

bigger question: am i Black because society says so? because they don't. in fact, most say i'm
"white" (you know, proper speakin and shit li dat dere.) So am i, in fact, white?
if so, am i white because that is my definition?

but to determine that wouldn't we, first, have to define Black?

so Tarrance = white . which doesn't = Black
Tarrance: intelligent, cunning, wise, hard-working, talented, kind, etc. = white. (?)
so Black: dumb, dense, foolish, lazy, unskillful, mean-spirited, etc. i refuse to believe such.

but to further answer this, we'd have to ignore my pigment.

define "definition": the words that tell us what we/it are/is

define "what we are": the people who make definitions

"I am what i am."

-heres to a new dictionary.

may death be with you

if heaven was hell in vicea versa.
i'd say God bless you and you'd say i cursed.

peace be with thee
would be an insult of a thing

so thank God things aren't how they could be.

but for you, and just for you.
that is how things should be.

i curse you breath
i grimace at your smile
i wish you the best at nothing, but death.

too bad the world isn't vice versa.