…sweet
delicate material, flames but water, dipped, rinsed, while renewed: a mere lad,
suffused with ether, an effusion of fire, but realism was raw, uncultured,
plus, stigmatized: art meant graffiti, museums meant bones, while schooling
meant babysitting: our great elders, sipping vodka, reciting tales, instructing
in morals: raven complexion, mulatto troubles, quadroon miracles: such
sandpapered attitudes, while remaining rough, exchanging anger for sorrow: our
faith by works, our dreams scaled, our telegrams to Santa: parents at freedom,
confined in dungeons, peering into America: our pre-notions, our silent
worship, our inverted discontent: as inward searchers, lost at
thought-particles, needing education: systematic decay, mutual infestation, our
souls prone to addiction: pregnant welfare, long church lines, incredible
frustration: to envision life, meant denying facts, where hope was running with
rope and carrot: right so close, right too far, while existence appeared
oxymoronic: such beautiful creatures, at ugly behavior, it became difficult to
intuit potentiality: those stressed realities, those midnight stores, our
jukebox melancholia: our poolhalls, our burger stands, our dreary railroad
tracks: leaping for ventures, escaping trails, while sensing something
exhilarating: our sweet delicate souls, our reversed mentalities, while
pioneers challenged status quo: those Mississippi roots, traveling into cities,
accustomed to separation: those dreams we sheltered, those realities we
muffled, our dearest spirituality: conversing with paper, our pencils and big
erasers, our rulers and peculiar insistence: alone in our crowds, such sweet,
marvelous appraisal, where something blew into focus: our days abandoned, our
souls rescued, our attraction to something dissimilar: this race for
wordsmithing, our discovered safes, where many struggled to accept change….
…years
are ghostly, our faces suffering isolation, or something by attraction:
encouraged to ski, unsuppressed to fly, while something intricate streams beneath
its surface: this radical resentment, this forced apology, such sweet delicate
confrontation: esteemed for traits, rebuked for similarities, where most are
entitled to sweetness: looking for confused, dealing in struggling atmosphere,
where many are refusing their reflection: particular dynamics, while birds are
chirping, we sit abandoned to office rituals: documents for souls, remembrance
for hostility, rewritten paragraphs for cultural traits: by evolution, by
blended genetics, by higher education: such flying fires, such filtered
ingredients, while literature seeped into our segments: as similar enmity,
attempting friendship with worlds, while met with steep resistance: genetic
mechanisms, exposure versus isolation, or inclusivity versus miseducation:
scribbling excitedly, watching intently, or mimicking while feeling alienated:
ambiguous interaction, submissive explanation, as if one is sorry for
inclusion: but more to office vices, looking a certain strength, protruding a
powerful chi, or simply listening more than talking: our days in vacuums, our
trailblazing contemporaries, or our ability to esteem human existence: this
fairer chase, this cinematized eccentricity, while humans are curious to unveil
the mask….
…iced
conceptions, misperceived weaknesses, such hatred becoming attraction: viewing
behind appearance, listening to foibles, or restructuring based upon new
evidence: this modern thing, to readjust perspectives, where valid truths are
presented: to discuss diversity, to pride inclusivity, or to complement
differences: from ghettos to Rodeo Drive, or Washington to Watts, as creatures
studying our environment: such magnetic people, alarmed by fears, seemingly
devouring an endless chase: refocused at
points, digressing at junctures, while lingering in mire: those muddy
insistencies, or pluralistic values, where thought analyzes and mirrors….
