Using the "n-word" on the radio is a controversial thing to do. Yet Nelson's poetic use of the "n-word," introduced as it is by Nelson's explanation of her experience encountering the word from the mouth of a man driving by in a truck, seems to be the kind that, with a content advisory, would allow the piece to do its healing work. A bit more introduction, or perhaps a critical explanation (afterward?) of how the literary devices at work in the poem complicate the use of the word and/or the story being told, would make it just the thing to provoke thought with NPR listeners.