Untranslatable

I ask my creative writing  students to expose themselves by placing their work on the critique chopping block. I remember how difficult it can be to share your writing in a workshop for the first time and/or with a new group of students.   When my professors shared their fiction and poetry in my writing workshop classes, I really appreciated it. Now,  I often share my work with my students.  Recently, I shared a poem with one of my classes and was very surprised by the responses that I received.  A couple of my students found my poem to be offensive and while it was a small percentage of the class, I found myself reflecting.  Why did they find it offensive?  I wrote the poem with both  performance and print in mind.  I have performed the poem several times, two times after sharing it with my class.  I have not gotten a sense that the audience was offended but then it occurred to me that the performance of my poem is the key for its completion.  My poem has also been published in print and now I wonder how many people may derive a different meaning than what I intended the poem to convey.  I also have found that depending on my tone and inflections the meaning of the poem changes with each performance.  I have included the text of my poem and two audio recordings.