Neither the smell nor the taste of the popcorn is the same as it used to be.

The snow came hard and fast

piled up high and closed all the schools.

The children free from

the restraints of education

frolicked and rode sleighs and

build sexually and racially ambigious snowpersons

in vacant lots for these kids

did not have front or backyards.

Now some of the these snowpersons

had snowboobs

and some had snowpenises

and some actually had both,

and they all had noses made of half eaten carrots

and big smiles that sucked on

hashpipes stolen from older siblings

After a few days

the snowpersons of ambigious gender

began to change from snow white to a darker shade

do to all the soot and dirt

from the factories and highways surroundings

the neighborhoods filled with vacant lots.

And the faces of the snowpersons changed

from snowwhite to what some said was off black

And someone with too much time on their hands

made a photo of the now darker snowpersons

with ambigious gender

and posted it online accusing the children of

building ambigious snowpersons with blackface.

And the children shrugged their shoulders and

said they had no idea what the adults were

talking about

and the Academy Awards happened and

many people said oooh and aaah and

Martin Luther King is still dead

and so is Malcolm X and Abraham Lincoln too

and who is suprised that John Wayne was a racist and

Spike Lee finally

won an Oscar and some other people

didn’t.

And an artist wore a tuxedo dress that made

a social political impact upon the red carpet

and probably cost more to produce

than most people earn in a month

and well those snowpersons covered in soot

continued to smoke their hashpipes and didn’t seem bothered

and some people went a bit crazy on social media about the snowpersons

and the Oscars and even tweeted attacks

aimed at the local children who had built the snowpersons

of ambigious gender calling them racists

and the t.v. talkshows went blah blah blah about the Oscars and

the snowpersons of ambigious gender and race

and many people spoke very self righteously about it all

as many many people seemed to enjoy doing so

and many white people scratched their heads and

many black people did the same thing

but for different reasons

and eventually the weather cleared up and the children

had to go back to school

and they continued playing together upon playgrounds

that had been built between factories and highways

and the swings there were also covered in soot

and a few days later the sun came out and the temperature rose

and those snowpersons of ambigious gender and race

well they just melted away and all that was left

in their place were hashpipes lying

in pools of dirty water, with a few pebbles that had been used as eyes

and a couple of half eaten carrots that had days before been noses.

And most people enjoyed the thaw

while others knew that

there was always another deep freeze

on the way

one day.