Tuesday, September 25, 2018

I Wonder how Love Strategizes


…sufficient grace, or parallels bleeding, or holograms are wheezing: this fever for thoughts, those excruciating legs, or parachutes too far to reach: this leaping frenzy, those catchy eyes, or loquat gin: to imagine remedies, for something balm and crucial, or long stemmed pride—as captured with graces, or cuffed with humiliation, or puffing while redeeming her conscious: this fair enterprise, this dying luxury, or kept for ruined and feeling trapped: that icy forest, those icy chimps, or monkeys pitched as delicacies: those nuggets of rain, that terrific agony, or howling for feeling emphatic: this placeless future, those placeless survivors, this placeless race—while afforded one intensity, or awkward playing pretend, where many specialize at speaking incantations: that full moon, that ruby sun, or this robe disguising myriad strains….

It brings love forward; It kills so sweetly; It reminds souls of something un-captured: this tongue flippancy, this night-rising cat exhaustion, where Love was purposed as pregnant: a man dives, he digs his treasuries, either/or, to collapse or leap: as building realities, or leasing automobiles, while shadows ride into sunset: this trillion dollar vessel, or this five dollar beer, while one was sudden upon florescent bees: our lives laughing, our feelings courted, or years to rooms speaking Swahili: that photogenic smile, or perchance social merchants, to invest in life  searching for paradise: those clever wings, this clever everything, or days as nights paraded in black culture: those romantic caricatures, this intimate pantomime, to learn that Love is manic: this cut and feel good, this drench and hair clave, while destined for courage and adoring imperfect this human!          

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