Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

PWOC

"...I am everywhere, stealing others

PWOC

POC stands for people of color. I am a person without color, or a PWOC. I am also odorless and tasteless. Like tofu, like an invisible gas, I have no history and no meaning. I am everywhere, stealing others' shapes and forms. I am the center of history, the core of meaning, democracy and the rule of law, civilization itself. I am colonialism, genocide, ecocide, barbarism. I am a concept that rules the Earth. I am PWOC. I do not exist, but I cannot be escaped.






Article © Ethan Goffman. All rights reserved.
Published in the November 22, 2021 issue .
Image(s) © Sand Pilarski. All rights reserved.
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Jerry
11/23/2021
07:07:41 PM
Thanks for writing this. It goes to the heart of the PWOC’s constant race to control power over all people, governments, and laws, by any means possible throughout history!
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