Poem: Richard Pryor Addresses A Fucked Up Nation

Richard Pryor told America about racism but America just wanted to laugh.

Richard Pryor told America about homophobia too but the laughs just kept on coming

Prior to Richard there were safe comics, doing bits not taken from their own lives but when

Richard Pryor decided to out his inner demons on American stages

they replied, “That N-word’s crazy” – they sa…