What exactly in the poem offers an indictment? Where in the language do you find that critique? https://twitter.com/poetrymagazine/status/1276670409656741890

I've read the poem. I would suggest that it works very hard to avoid indictment. It presents its offensive moments without comment.

The only way to read this poem as indictment is to begin with the assumption that the poet is a "good person" and "not a racist." The kind of benefit of the doubt that we're always extending to successful white men.

There's this unspoken agreement between the poet and their assumed sympathetic reader that they are on the side of good, and therefore cannot be blamed for anything you, the overly sensitive reader, finds on the page.

It says a lot about who the poet and editors think is their audience.