"The Incident"

The last stanza talks about how the little boy has had more hard times in his life, but out of all of them that one stuck with him the most. That memory of that little white boy callingig him such a horrible name stuck with him throughout all the other horrible things that had happened in Baltimore. Just a little boy that happened to be of color wanted to play with a boy that looked his age, and not his color, but then this little boy used a term so harsh, so cruel, that it stuck with him for the rest of his life. The title is perfect for this poem because it shows the sadness and the pain that this little boy went through it was an incident small and painful, which is pretty mych the defnintion of that word.