Untitled ("I sware he turned to me")

The speaker reports a man calling himself and others native sons and making racial and national claims about fighting, travel and control of land.

The speaker frames the man's speech with he turned to me and he sid. The page does not establish those claims as facts about the named groups or identify the speaker's own beliefs, gender or biography.

The speaker reports 'I sware he turned to me and he sid / Sweets, we are native sons, American', followed by his claims about 'the browns', 'the asians' and 'the nego'.

The poem records a man's sweeping statements about groups, in the source's own terms, as reported speech; the poem does not frame them as fact, and the transcription preserves them without endorsement.