Monday, July 6, 2020

Behaviors: But We Knew It Must Be Better


so gentle into dusk so tender under knives or so radical over theology: a man running where she sits while I run back, collapse, to hear, The frustration is patience! such expectant eyes such wayside miracles while taught the Good Samaritan. I knew poverty while it seemed normal where comparisons are hard while isolated; desolation doesn’t care, it speaks to greater forces, it tells a story of possibilities. times might shift. you might meet an experimenting white woman. you might renege on your maxims. such raw starkness or tetras crimes where riches were meant likeness of old money: slave owner money, economic money, even food company/cotton money. those most regal ways those waves into organic orgasms or sight to face a deep feeling: some type of killing-me, or rough patches, or reality shushing some need for loving aches: the poet dying or living or such polarized sensations; where Love was filthy, or Love was whorish, or Love was everything a black man deserves. this dog-eat-dog world those romantic/alienated, or disappearing mistakes. to forgive every week. to lie, so crass, or to crash where morning is eggs with bacon. such bondage such blue lives matter, where blacks kill-over by dozens. such as 1965, those deep angers, where a man was too tired to reap. such horses such galloping such rage over race, woman, while so open one must decide to stay present. a man needing acceptance, if but to feel good, plus, our women shunning. so much us running one way, them running through us, our arms open for our rubies! such inner government, or such a savior, while money became what its intention operates.     

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