Saturday, May 30, 2015

We Express through You

She has the strength of Sun Tzu, the wit of Simone, and the
rhythm of Shakespeare. I watch her, portraying the depth
of Whitman. She creates with the sight of Emily, and her reach
is that of Robert Frost. I ask our mystic Blake, shall the heart inflate?
Indeed, she wails the cries of Maya, and features the hurt of Pablo;
for love is warmth, the culture of Langston Hughes. So walk the
beaches. Kick the sands. And read the legends of Homer.
Indeed, sanity is the mind of Ezra, and structure is Angelina
Jolie. Now we wait and feature art, and we die Mary Carr, and
muse Nick Flynn, and ponder Sylvia Plath. Our lunch is
authenticity, and we gnaw upon nouns and verbs. But never
such to love: our width is that of Nietzsche’s. But ever this
wingspan, and ever our sycamore scent. Only Denzel
Washington could act this love; and Angela Bassett feels this
art. I thirst you, and live C.D. Wright; and Trethewey called upon
thunder. So pose a nightmare, and excavate a Robert Greene.      


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