I Doubt This Is a Proof

Toni Morrison 

Has claimed all good art

Is political.

Apolitical

Art is never good,

It follows. But that’s not good 

Enough. Apolitical

Art, she suggests, can’t exist,

Because those who strive

To be apolitical

Are political

By showing they love

The status quo. Art trying

To be apolitical 

Therefore can be good,

But it’s evil? I recall

When I was a child

Being told all truth

Was God’s truth. A doubt

Only came from the devil.

That it was a doubt was proof.