Jim Everhard

 

here you go boy
nice clean gun
go shoot yourself
a gook for
uncle sam

just remember
cause we’re snuffing
gooks today
don’t mean we can’t
snuff us a nigger
tomorrow

no tap dancing
on duty
you hear

 

Jim Everhard is the author of a book of poems, Cute (1982). He grew up in Northern Virginia, served in the US Navy from 1966 to 1970, and spent the next eleven years working on a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from George Mason University. He lived in Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. through the 1980s, until his early death from AIDS in 1986.