Thursday, September 23, 2021

find us …

 

  

find us like spiders in cracks, the new black, fanciful faces. find us screaming, knowing our destination, a little flippant. find us abandoned, damn near succumbing, with pride in our spears. like spurs in flesh, we woke up, the demon is on layaway. too much concern, the new black, our culture touching atmosphere—the love of blackness the curse chasing, much togetherness in times of destitution. love is black, sages are ethnic, life is origin.

find us laughing in seas, raiding ships, like pirates for riches. find

us …

with inmost tales, with a rabbit in pocket, with agony at flames …

find

us on the playground, late for church, speaking of casting ghosts.

yes! find us …

beating drums, at nativity, always root or nothing.

find us as cowboys, galloping through deserts, making moonshine.

the pain of the animal, the dent in genetics, when medicine was magic.   

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