Thursday, February 16, 2023

What Becomes Human?

 

Women know devastation. The arts know redemption. A picture is silent my name. Ghetto to Hills, Hills to cross country, cross country returning to alpha. Omega bleeding,

 

political skies, religion begging its premise, despite, its longevity. Rooms are filled with hopes, growing into visions, smoke filled clouds with voice; acorn stubborn, tulip yellow,

 

mighty as it becomes ignorance, the fastest chase cheetahs. Women know indemnity. The prose knows its disconnection. And poetry could taste sweeter. Most present venom,

 

lizard traipsing deserts, feeling churning into a rainstorm; stereo white noise, scorpion agitation, grasshoppers and mice … so tell me the truths, as living solid asphalt, to have

 

laughed at God; a mind full of cobras, going through fatal thoughts, chasing tails, looking to become masters, palms filled with dust.    

I’d Save The Reader Years

    The beat becomes sickness. A long crucible—a drilling ecstasy. I was losing focus, feeling forbidden, if to self, if to mirrors. So curs...