Monday, September 27, 2021

Black Licorice

 

like mystic dice, or alchemic skies, metal into liquids—nothing to eat, nothing to say, with everything to believe in; it must be better, the laws of poverty, pure grit to escape—no more Welfare, more buckets of faith, in the church line. a brick of cheese, it might last, cut the mole off. many signs, many symbols, anything silent is a psychopath. some exaggerate—he must be pliable, reachable, bendable—the plight of blackness, immediate aberration, simply upon color, ethnicity—they look differently. ain’t nobody listening, nobody but a few, we adore, nay, love the few.

 

          faith was rebuilt, try completing science, try aching in private—the force of the thief, a bag of farm chicken, a stead of steeds—more laughing, forgetting agony, none fall enlove like those dying. beautiful, tall black woman, so provocative, too much to conquer; easy winds, mudslides, grinning under sunshine; too busy to run, too involved to pretend, so delicate, we trust you. it never ends, it becomes terrific, such rain on seas, another inch—into sky rise, so low, we need more machines. tragedy struck. seated in pain; the excuse is terrible.    

 

sirens screaming, a face in itself, to look, where moons shine; tears against gravity, rather give them to God, precious sorrow gets us closer.

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