tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89160367412277604742024-03-20T00:16:00.181-07:00Thick Descriptions: Philly's Poetic EthnographyThick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-59959809826200686952019-04-24T12:59:00.001-07:002019-04-24T13:00:27.510-07:00And If They Come For Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Immediate release---Four black girls died on a September Sunday morning in 1963, at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair’s senseless deaths became one of turning points for the Civil Rights Movement. <i>Countdown to “Boom”: We all fall down</i>, written by <b>Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon</b> and choreographed by <b>Kariamu Welsh</b> depicts a Sunday morning and its explosive aftermath through dance, gospel music, freedom songs and theater. Williams-Witherspoon and Welsh joins a plethora of artists who have given voice to the tragic violence at the 16th Street Baptist Church that occurred fifty years ago this coming September. The bombing, revisited, symbolizes and acts on memory in the form of a question; “Who would these four young women have become if they had grown to womanhood?” Countdown to “Boom:” We All Fall Down! has a cast of 20 including actors, dancers, spoken word artists, singers and musicians. This is the second collaboration between the PEW winning playwright (2000) Williams-Witherspoon and Guggenheim-winning choreographer (*) Welsh—both, professors in the Center for the Arts at Temple University. In 2010, they produced “La Baker,” a work about the life and times of Josephine Baker, which, likewise told an untold; but necessary story. When asked about driving force behind their collaborations, both artists/scholars echoed each other-- affirming how much they respected each other’s work and then they went on to say; “ we tell the stories that need to be told and that should never be forgotten.”</div>
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Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-42497792568856033622011-12-11T22:47:00.000-08:002011-12-11T23:09:10.574-08:00My Field Site<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>there is something poetic about a droplet</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>hurling its spirit through the stratus to get your attention</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>poltroon to liquid honesty</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>grimacefully caper flesh to the yellow bellied underside of an umbrella-ed nature</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>scapegoated excuses lined in pinstripped lace-fronts and leatherette hand me downs</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>mitigating moist impact</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>causing it to ricochet </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>misfire to the cloak of another</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>whoso brazenly accepted that precipitation as their own</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>however, never accustomed to doning the falsely accused</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>now parka sheaved</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>missing my calling in haste to flee yours</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>needing for moments no longer kef to your uncertainty</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>wishing to be saturated in divinity</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>decisions made</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>...naked...</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>walked down desolate street</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>absorbed in the "should be's"</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">[found peace today]</span></i></b></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-68656462533555113972011-12-11T19:04:00.000-08:002011-12-11T19:04:55.407-08:00Magical Christmas Lights<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">There was a time of innocence,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Tinsel, garland, and popcorn string,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Little darlings outside would sing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I wondered what would Santa bring.</span><o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Childhood memories will never fade,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I do miss our Christmas parades.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Now I celebrate all alone,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Except my friends Smith and Wesson,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>They said we brought you a present.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">I go to greet them, but ring, ring.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">Hello? Who is this? Santa Clause?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">I really love you too Mommy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">I’m coming over with the lights.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-59799733438692435442011-12-11T19:01:00.000-08:002011-12-11T19:01:38.619-08:00New Hampshire Got It Right {“Live Free or Die”}<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Do you hear it?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Do you smell it?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Oh boy, you sure can feel it.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The stench of Crony Capitalism and Corporate Fascism that has brought greed,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And narcissism to the down center stage spot light that now the masses must even opine. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Pepper spray is a rainbow to some.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Rubber bullets are a thanksgiving treat to others.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Corporate failures that should have a ‘Going out of business’ sign get the greatest government bailout in <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>American History, you A.I.G., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Reserve mother fuckers.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Where’s my bailout?!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>OWS individuals are called ‘Lazy’ and told ‘Get a job!’<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>So to you two party system elephant and donkey cool aid Jonestown drinking fools,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Let it be said that no one did anything in the face of tyranny.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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And now you do what they told ya!<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">N</span></b>ow wait, what’s this thing called ‘The Internet’?<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b>D</b>ig deep you dungeon master nerds because your surfing a dialectical force,<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">O</span></b>nly second to Mother Nature’s ability to instantly change human behavior.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">F</span></b>CC and politicians bang their drums for net neutrality,<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b>T</b>oo much free unregulated information for the masses is anathema.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">H</span></b>opes and dreams of those rightly pursuing their happiness,<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">E</span></b>nd up in dumpsters marked for EPA recycling.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b>F</b>ascist forces prop up the elite oligarchies.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">R</span></b>un, run, run.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">E</span></b>vade, adapt or you go splat.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><b>E</b>nding with a tsunami of hyper-inflation, your T.V. masturbation causes massive emotional starvation.</i><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-55880926758747631202011-12-11T18:52:00.000-08:002011-12-11T18:52:59.177-08:00Struggle Addictions<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Voids.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Crowded voids.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Impossible crowded voids.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Voids occupy a space.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Impossible voids occupy a space.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Disgust. Anguish. Resentment. Hopelessness. Fear. Grief. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>There is no peace to be found.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Why does it always have to be negative?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I may be in pain, but I choose the light!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I will ride the light waves to victory.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>This light even escapes the black hole voids.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I did not create the light.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Who originated all the voids?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>No blame game here.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Light rebukes voids.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Nothing random.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Choose.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-78628639080868194242011-12-10T10:52:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:52:36.112-08:00The Color Wheel<div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>I.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>I’ve traced his migration here his Painted flags carried in his eyes and hanging from his doorposts his parents flying high waving the truth that they weren’t born here.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>I try to backtrack through my own.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>A living testament to your histories green card acceptance what path brought you to this place?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Row homes shoved beside people your history never dreamed you live next too south Philly has forced you to realize who you are.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Your flags not Irish or Mexican, Vietnamese, or Japanese.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Its red white and blue.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Stop trying to trace it back further.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>II.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>I move, place my feet in patterned rhythms, twirling through my present pain I am dancing.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Ballet leaps on cobbled stone steps of my new home I am trying to fit in here.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Realizing I cant Mambo more than those that made it up I have gotten tired faster than I thought I would.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>My history can’t manifest a new movement through another person’s back-story I have to discover my own.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Realizing its just okay to be black.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Not banging drums of kente cloth African dance moves but black<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>A Negro spiritual is about as far back as you go.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Your soul resides in its song.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>III.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>I saw my history today.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Wrapped in swaddling clothes carried on the back of whip ripped flesh I don’t know how I got there.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Or where it’s going. What cross it’s carrying.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Drugging through southern back woods Louisiana lynch dreams I saw my history move on toward Calvary.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Sacrificing its self for my future being.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>My history realized it was black today.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Not dark skinned or light but the stigma of black carrying bullet shots and ghetto slang and Barack Obama all in the same name I made a discovery about me today.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Saw myself move toward the love of those who may have but a sliver of connection to me we are a people.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Made up of a heart full of nations I don’t know the name of all having migratory patterns landing us in a barrier 50 states and locking us to a share future.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>My future stopped caring about what our separated pasts were it just saw your flesh tones.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>And decided you could understand.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>And understanding.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i>Agree to fight the oppression of the color wheel.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-25189356582340118712011-12-10T10:44:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:46:59.674-08:00Philly Stew<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Bits of food and flavor mix in the can of my Philly.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Chinese chicks tote chickens while white women push babies with baskets of baked treats.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>My soup is HOT.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Campbell’s cant spice like my Philly and Progressive cant process the sounds and smells of the melting pot.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Its time you sup on the music of cheesecake symphonies and feast your eyes on the mixture of my home.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I can’t ladle you out a portion of it.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>But you can smell this stew.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Raw fish fries beside buckets of fresh fruit ripe for my picking then cut and sliced to fit the blend of my streets and those who live in them<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A fusion of the past where Vietnam vets bleed, and my amigos work then sing praises cuz they are fed, I am home here.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Streets so riddled with compound cultures you can taste it.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Take it home, warm it up, and be content in knowing that your palate has been expanded just by walking down the street.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-25281338154845547562011-12-10T10:41:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:41:35.585-08:00TU Advisory<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Is there an echo in here?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I could swear I heard that same gunfire just last night:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The first shot, Isolated, hesitant,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Then an answering triplet when the shooter concludes<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>He's past the Point of No Return.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The next morning Campus Safety tells the story<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sterilized: a block and time, a shooting in two<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sentences, with no blood. And the news breaks<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And we reflect again on the tension: <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Gentrified Temple, our ivory tower<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Just a block too near the slums.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>On Friday night <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Drunken twenty-something white kids in troupes<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Troop past drunken forty-something residents on stoops<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>We fear their violence; they hate our arrogance<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And chafe with the disparity of opportunity <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Too close to home to ignore.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>On Eleventh Street, a foreign studies major<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Buys groceries for a fifty-something neighbor <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With arthritic knees. She invites him to dinner.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>It's a good story, a better story,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>But it lacks the gunpowder to resonate.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-87277009616074149192011-12-10T10:36:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:36:18.989-08:00I N V U<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>When I say I envy<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You, I mean I envy<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The choices and chances you had,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Nothing more. See, love,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I used to say, love, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>That the world never stops<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>For us, that there is no pause<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>In life's brutal rhythm, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And whatever it throws at us,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Our tired feet must find<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Some way to stay in step. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>But that wasn't true<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>For you, was it? <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>When you fell apart, everything<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Ground to a halt—I <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Ground to a halt—<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>But for every dollar and every <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Day spent on your well-being<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You couldn't be well. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I never got that opportunity. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The drums never stopped<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Beating for me; throbbing behind<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>My temples in the space between<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Asleep and awake. I was left to wait<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>To watch our money run out without<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Your income and try to keep<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Our roof over my head. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>There was no recovery for me<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>No respite from the hard world<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>On Daddy's dime. I never told you:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I couldn't cry for four months after<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You left. Careening on the brink, I wrote <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Truth disguised as fiction and fiction<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>disguised as poetry. Finally it all poured<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Out, sobs and screams and the words<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>“I love you every damn day—”<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I still do, you know, though<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Every damn day now your fingerprints<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Fade a little more from my skin. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Once I admitted I was in mourning <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I couldn't stop. I sank deeper into it<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With each month. But still there was <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>No rest: I had bills to pay and flooded<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Apartments to flee: It's not always sunny<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Here, no matter what the television says.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Not all of us get to live at a halfway<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>House in a Florida suburb. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Every raindrop was another beat,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And I kept my bloody feet dancing <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And threw back my head and sang<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Sisyphus' song: I embraced<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>My rugged fate.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>But beneath reality's callus<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>There's still that boy in me <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Who drove six hours to take<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You dancing on the sand <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>That night you felt too alien<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>To face your own senior prom.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I envy the choices and chances <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You had. If you'd given the same<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>To me, maybe this could have lived.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-65736101393273240002011-12-10T10:31:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:31:51.641-08:00We Shall Not<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>'We shall not be moved' <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Rings hollow when we're picked<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Up and thrown out, kicking<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And screaming The Whole World<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Is Watching—but there's a blind<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Spot when the cameramen<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Are the first to go. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>There's a gang of boys stomping<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Anthills: it's so much easier<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>To kick something over than<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>To create it. We might look<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Like insects under your boot but<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Damnit we toiled for this<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Two months undone in hours. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Resurrection City is in<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A dumpster in Lower Manhattan,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Our footprints pressure-washed<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Away. I had a dream<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>until<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The helicopters enforcing<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The no-fly zone woke me up.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Justice for all is a city<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>councilman arrested <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>bleeding from the head. The nexus<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>In our protest against corporations<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>In bed with government is policed<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>By a billionaire mayor sleeping<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>With a Brookfield Properties chair. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Now what can we say? We<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Shall Not—what, Be Silenced?<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>That works, until brain damage<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Leaves us mute. We Shall Not<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Be Subverted Or Privatized—<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>They're noble words, but<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Time will tell. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I can only promise this:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>WE SHALL NOT go gentle into that<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Good night. Forgive me, America, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>If this sounds like a shot fired; <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I meant no offense. Don't take <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>these words too harshly; it's a jest,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A rubber bullet.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-4542466189562883012011-12-10T10:29:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:29:33.505-08:00Docutrines of Grace<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>In full disclosure:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I think I always knew<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You wouldn't choose <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Me. Every weekend, singing<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Your songs, something about that<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Harmony rang hollow in the space <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Between my soul and solar <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Plexus. There were potted tulips <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>By the podium last time I dragged<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Myself to Your house of praise. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>It was high spring. I haven't returned.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Now everything is falling and rotting<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Like Your greatest disciples said this<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>World would. I was going to be one<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Of them once, a warrior for You, at least<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I told myself—but there was always<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>That falling, rotting doubt stuck deep,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Like glass embedded in my sole, scraping<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>As I tried to march toward You. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I've read some books and I know now<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>That You built this into me:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>The Blood of the Lamb<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Is only enough for so many, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>After all. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Welcome to the cosmic kickball game:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I'm back in middle school gym class<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Waiting against the wall<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>God and the Devil dividing up teams<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>For the Armageddon playoff.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I'm straining forward when You look at me<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And there's this glow in Your eyes like<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Pity—not enough, though, to change<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Your choice. You need a faster runner,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>A stronger kicker, and I'm left watching<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>As they heed the call to Your side. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Irresistible grace<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Means they couldn't say no if they<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Tried, like total depravity <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Means for all my desperate glances<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I'm powerless when the Adversary comes.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>We all go to our separate locker rooms<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Just like you planned it before the dawn<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Of time. Remember that,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>When you preheat the lake of fire for me.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Do I get a consolation prize? All<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>These years running after You <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Seem wasted if I was never<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Meant to catch up. Your best<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Scholars wrote books on election<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And they say only You elect:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>My choice is predestined. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Maybe that's why Holy Writ<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Turns to ash in my mouth.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>In a limited atonement economy<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>There's no upward mobility;<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>My perseverance never meant a <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Damn thing, but pardon me if I can't<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Take my damnation like a man. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I have a few questions before I begin<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>My weeping and gnashing of teeth.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Before You formed me in the womb<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>You knew me and marked me to burn:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>What kind of god is that? Will You<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Answer for Yourself, Adonai, <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Or as kindling for the flames am I<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Still unworthy of speech? Our Father<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Who Art In Heaven, You have <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>To say something<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Abba<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Daddy<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Please<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I don't know<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Why You're doing this<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I'm smaller and weaker<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And I know I was never<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Your favorite son<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>But I'm still your son, dammit,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I'm still your son</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-35320532831492677242011-12-10T10:08:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:08:10.446-08:00Sleep On Box Day<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>on suburban street<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>the cars pile in for the festivities <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>christmas lights gleam off the packages wrapped in foil<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>mother yells, yuh nuh see dem don’t want di food to spoil<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>The Jamaicans are here<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>adults and picknis alike drink up<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>wrey and him nephew spice up every –Jesus Christ ting-<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>di punch,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>di sorrel, <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>di egg nog,<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>uncle freddy and him daughter poor some pon di cake<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>no christmas compares to another<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>every year brings a different feel<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>carols include<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>RING A LING A LING<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>SCHOOL BELL A RING <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>KINFE AND FORK FI FIGHT FOR DUMPLING<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>as all the americans dem pak up dem bag and pick dem gifts<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>we keep it going<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>Drink til your Drunk<o:p></o:p></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><b>Sleep on boxing day</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-19770470830463378192011-12-10T09:58:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:58:08.215-08:00The Silent Denial<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><b><i>the morning brings about the same issue from the day before</i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>last night, <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>the cries of the baby filled the space with shrieking sounds<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>today,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>the morning news serves as the wake up call<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>cereal floods a bowl<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>while eggs scramble on the stove<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>two cars leave, <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>on occasion, one returns earlier in the day<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>sounds of love are made in a bed belonging to another<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>no cute cuddling because there is no time for lingering<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>they were caught once before <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>two cars in the drive way by night fall<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>the baby coos while splats of orange drips down the wall<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>silent dinner<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>3 words said the rest the baby<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>they live in the silent denial of their relationship<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>dirty looks are exchanged<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>but they know why they are there<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>cries of the baby fill the space <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>with shrieking sounds<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>it always serves as the reminder</i></b></div></span>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-16408173673899951422011-12-10T09:55:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:55:44.339-08:00Our Bodies<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">our bodies</span></span></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">we do a magnificent thing…</span></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">with our bodies…</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">mostly performed in the late night</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">because the candles beam brighter</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">long days are forgotten on these nights</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">longing for our bodies so close</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">it begins with touch</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">not g-spot</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">but the spot</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">one that raises hairs on necks</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">and dicks in jeans</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i see his eyes</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">no other distractions</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">just me and our passion</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">so much held there</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i stare at his soul</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">my boy begins to fall</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span></i></b><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">tightly cradled in arms</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">brown skin always looks good in cream sheets</span></span></i></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">soft lips caress hard tips</span></span></i></b></div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">soon this strong black man begins his descent</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">back to neck</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">ears to head</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">my fingers sooth his fade</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">convulsions erupt from the vaginal volcano</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">where the god has chosen to dine</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">minutes of pleasure appear as moments of euphoria</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">whispers…</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">shuffling sheets lead to black on black crime</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i am sentenced to silence</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">no pillows to stop the shrieks</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">your baton used to punish me</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">strokes from the back, side, front…</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">minutes of pleasure appear as moments of elatenment</span></span></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i bite his covering fingers</span></span></i></b></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i have slipped out of control</span></span></i></b></div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">my pussy speaks for me now</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">I have now given up the reins</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">every move I make is controlled by him</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">felt by him</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">with him always knowing what’s next</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">we ascend to an unbreathable space</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">he has given me a rare and special gift</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">come</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">came</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">came again</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i want to bring him to where he has raised me</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">moist grounds are plummeted</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">as he re enters</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">with no reinforcements</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">he reinforces</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">his thrust</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">minutes of pleasure appear as moments of ecstasy</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">there is no pill</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">i teeter on the edge</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">but strong hands hold tight</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">position…</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">steady…</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">rising…</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">relief.</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">declivity is not easy to obtain</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">somehow we get there</span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">brown eyes close…</span></span></i></b></div></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">we do this magnificent thing…</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></i></b></div></span> <span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;"><i><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: white;">with our bodies.</span></span></i></b></div></span></i></b>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-88797568610487580922011-12-10T09:51:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:51:54.525-08:00Executive Memo RE: The Occupy Movement<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Dear employees of the 1%,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Everyone has become obsessed with the 99%<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Since 04 Jay Z has been talkin bout these bitches<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>But history shows that eventually it all falls down<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Your cares are no concern of ours <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Your aches<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Your groans,<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Your moans<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Your strikes or <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Your plights<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>As a company we are tired of your water cooler conversations on joining the resistance<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>My minor corporate infractions are nothing compared to your misdemeanors<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Public disturbance<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Obstruction of traffic<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>Human litter crowds the concrete<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>So now you occupy…<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>As employees of our company, we strongly advise you to continue all services necessary for me to run my life<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>The bus driver seats<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>The secretary stations<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>The blackboards in the school<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><i>The garbage on the street<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>Dissention will not be tolerated<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>Please make this memo top priority!</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-17128398582381624792011-12-10T09:24:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:25:55.232-08:00Brown Girls<ol start="33" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ezCVsiYOZ35bxUMWT8ZX6vGEUbE5LdQPg_t89inCIJWMLJGLFQ-RWN0dkzYP1E9g-BuPj7hEjkdMg28xqsYHOVFTtSsEPL8iCOLdCJzsNANsoRBdbXq1ZuE7-F0Sw3-DO35tusK8el-u/s1600/koconails.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ezCVsiYOZ35bxUMWT8ZX6vGEUbE5LdQPg_t89inCIJWMLJGLFQ-RWN0dkzYP1E9g-BuPj7hEjkdMg28xqsYHOVFTtSsEPL8iCOLdCJzsNANsoRBdbXq1ZuE7-F0Sw3-DO35tusK8el-u/s320/koconails.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><i>
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<b><i>Koco’s nail salon</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Owned by Brown girls who believe</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>In our money</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>They took a chance in</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Creating business for us</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>To make black profit</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Innovators who</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Recognize Brown Girl’s beauty</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Blooms from the inside</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>When you walk by there</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>You can hear self-love talks and</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Grown women Giggles</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Community made</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>By faces that look like me</i></b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><i>Giving back is free</i></b></div></ol>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-49185830460418892182011-12-10T09:21:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:21:01.763-08:00Empty House<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>In the hood, there is<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>No Santa, like No Daddy<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Just moms still trying</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-21546720821216178992011-12-10T09:09:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:09:15.791-08:00I Promise<div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll wipe your tears<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll clean food off your soft round face<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll hold you close when the pain feels too real<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise to tie your shoes, and wash your clothes until you learn how<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And I’ll hold your hand tight when you find your feet’s first steps<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll pick you up when your arms reach for me<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And I’ll sing you small lullabies.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise to show you your colors and letters and seasons and animals<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll drop you off on time, and pick you up on time<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>And cheer for you win or loss<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll help you through the tough times<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I won’t break you the way you’ll break me<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll wait for you to come back<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>I promise I’ll wipe your tears</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916036741227760474.post-21045020381438878722011-12-10T09:07:00.000-08:002011-12-10T09:07:31.724-08:00Come Up To Short<div class="Body"><b><i>1, 2 eyelashes<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>3, 4 lips<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>5, 6<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Nose and ring respectively<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>7, 8 dark circles<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>9, 10, 11 scars on my face<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>self made by self same hands.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Destruction in the deconstruction of<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>supposed blemishes I find daily on me.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Plucking poking pinching peeling<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>so as not to see any bumps.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Anything that will make like she was,<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>mother.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Who’s face festered and oozed.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Nightmares flooding my mind at night. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>What can I do to rid my self of this <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i> self-perpetuated curse. (I hide my face.)<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Her beauty rendered from inward out<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>My disdain/arrogance borne from outward in<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Qualities of me inherited by the <o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i> lesser parts<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Of my family.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Blemished, short, hairy wild, confused, disorderly.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Kind, compassionate, nonchalant.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>But I’ve learned to be grateful for the gifts<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Of speech and insight, vision, truth, love, hope<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i> beyond what is physical.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>I’ve inherited a kingdom of history<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>A world of knowledge<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>And thought this small vessel may seem at most times<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>Incapable of carrying the load<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="Body"><b><i>My ancestors help me.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>Thick Descriptionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15370258636590096718noreply@blogger.com0