Cracker

Isaiah asked, “What is that bag on your desk?”
I replied, “My lunch.”
“Can I have one of your assorted crackers?”
In Elizabethan times, “cracker”
described braggarts.
Are you a facebook braggart???
The root of the Middle English “crack”
means “entertaining conversation.”
I told Isaiah I was not his mother.
In his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet,” Malcolm X remarked,
"It's time for you and me to stop sitting in this country,
letting some cracker senators, Northern crackers and Southern crackers,
sit there in Washington, D.C., and come to a conclusion in their mind
that you and I are supposed to have civil rights.
There's no white man going to tell me anything about my rights."
Pejorative connotation?
I didn’t know what a cracker was in high school
until my best friend told me I was a cracker
and he was a spic.
Raymond Carver wrote Soda Cracker, an ode to teach.
I brought Isaiah
a bag of crackers to eat at his own risk.
My mother used to feed me stale crackers~
I feed my students etymology,
hoping they will digest
the ambiguities, complexities, and nuances of vocabulary,
my satire,
in context.