http://mulberryfairy24 Oct 2003

Thanks for the feedback and comments. I see your point about "dark skinned" being implied in "Black and Latino" but this piece is meant to convey racial tension with the imagery and descriptions (the pink 'pigs', the white trash bags) so I think it is useful to distinguish whether the narrator was seeing dark skinned or "high yaller" African Americans, non-white Latinos or caucasian Latinos.
You are right, I should be writing short fiction. I, too, am aware of the falseness of the label "free verse" when I am writing prose, but I try to "pass" if you know what I mean.