Nature has made the bark brown
Nature has made the bark brown
My man, my man
Nature has made the birds black
My man, my man
Nature has made the dirt dark
My man, my man.
Nature made the color of your skin
My man, my man.
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September 2009
September 2009
(for Cavafy)
Sometimes the closer you get to love
You want to turn and run in fear
Because love cause you can loose control
Of whom you are, to make yourself over
To fit the loved object.
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Rain, cold rain
Rain, cold rain
collects and runs
Curb side- gutter
Brush leabes and cigarette butts
With bits of paper in a heap.
Bodies with faces hidden
By umbrellas
Walk into rain from rain;
Rainbow oil stained muddy
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Be You Bold brothers
Be you bold brothers
You of the dark black skin
Be you bold brother
You of the blue black skin
Be you bold brother
You of the high yellow skin
Be you bounteous bound to be a black brother
You of the dirty red skin.
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Identity preserved
Identity preserved
In silence through the
Knowing the identity
Of God’s essential
And limited by
Being human of endurances
My thoughts are rebellious
Against my responsible repository
Of traditional journeys taken
By my pen.
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Men on t v ware lip stick
Men on t v ware lip stick
But when I do it they call me queer
Men in church ware long black dresses
But when I ware one they call me queer
Men on the football field slap each other
On the buttocks
But when I do it they call me queer.
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Today I do not want to think about wars
Today I do not want to think about wars
But still it is done against my well.
Today I do not want to think about hunger
Because my belly is full of found food
Today I do not want to think about murder
Although I kill time with this poem.
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I stalked the
I stalked the
Love of Richard
And relentless
My own faded
Childhood together
An illness of poems
Of television and
Anyone’s symptom
Encroaching in on
The cursing man
Of the darken street
Where he hope
To meet his new lover of
Dark ways.
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Nature is a noise maker
Nature is a noise maker
A whirl wind in the sand
Nature is never violent
Nature is breath
And heart beat of man dancing
Down the living lane
Mindful of being man
Nature is to eat and
Be bating in turn
Nature is living off itself
Eating itself alive.
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And Ganymede too
Eros was such a man
And Ganymede too
They were not afraid
To do as they do
Both found of the state
And form of men
Beauty of fair face
And pleasing skin
They let their passion rule
To do no less
Let me and you
Follow our passion
To ourselves being true.
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