a Soul

The strength it takes to walk a tightrope

Core strength 

Fighting for a soul

Soul of a nation

A nation of wounded souls

Souls united

Gather what’s left of our souls 

Destroying a heartland

Hunters and gatherers 

Heartbeat of a nation

Our leaders have failed the heart of our nations

They have to be accountable

Our last beacon 

Even at our ugliest 

Hope

Feed it

With a grain of rice

Raise our blood sugar

An injection 

Revive the soul

Cracks where the light gets in

Student loans

Housing

Healthcare

Economic Justice

Social Justice

A

1

Word

Statistic

Took my blinders off

Red and Blue

Just like you

Pluck It

Wake up, work, go to bed,

Rinse and repeat.

 

A black man lynched.

 

Wake up, work, go to bed.

Rinse and repeat.

 

A cage full of people, dying.

 

Wake up, work, go to bed.

Rinse and repeat.

 

Stole our elections.

 

Wake up, work, go to bed.

What am I rinsing off, I can’t sleep.

 

Words.

Vacant words. Words without action,

I want a word to tear your insides out. 

Words that evoke movement.

To storm a castle.

Lay siege upon your most tender places.

To force action.

Words so shrill you cover your ears and avert your eyes.

 

Feel the desperation.

Screaming through the ether.

 

Suffer.

Distress.

Hardship.

Subject.

Tolerate.

Allow.

Permit.

 

If thine blind eye offend thee, pluck it.

 

A Hoarders Gift

Breathing.

Purity.

10 years.

A hoarders gift.

 

World wide.

 

White privilege is asking permission of the patriarchy for a Women’s march and getting it.

Bootlicking whores.

 

Wanna ride this ass, learn how to spank it.

 

Let them spank it for a blue check.

Whose streets?

 

Amazon.

Amazon women?

 

Amazon forest.

Amazon.

 

Amazon streets.

White privilege.

I’m gonna let it shine.

 

White Patriarchy Gone Wild.

Flint still doesn’t have clean water.

Pass that kid some soap.

 

my ASS

Human rights for whom? Check your local listings, it aint us.

Discomfort in this skin. Why not?

 

Eat the rainbow.

Happily Ever After my ASS.

 

Big beautiful house. Check.

A real job. Check.

A real family. Check

A really real Dad. Triple check.

Normal. Check?

 

Who defined normal? My normal? 

Nor Mal.

Normalcy. 

Malady.

 

 

Your God.

Gawd damn.

That Girl

Eat. My. Ass. Flick it with your tongue.

Now swallow this shit.

 

Papa

Man

O heavenly father.

 

I’ve seen a man walk with Jesus.

It broke his back.

O papa.

 

Fuck Blue no matter who. And fuck you too.

 

World Wide. 

Open your eyes.

 

Have they made you mad enough to hurt my child? 

You are, they hurt her child and you turned a blind eye.

 

Her.

She.

Me.

We.

 

I’m tired. Screaming into the ether. No one cares. She doesn’t, do you?

I do.

 

Words. Softly spoken. Appropriate. Lady like. 

Demure. Eyes cast downward.

You miss the ball.

 

Hymen. Flesh easily torn.

Man. Flesh easily worn.

 

Death is the ultimate escape.

Pound of flesh.

An eye for a hymen?

 

Be a good woman.

 

A heart of kinetic sand.

Fuck me.

Please.

Fuck you.

Profane.

Profanity.

 

Satan dances on these lips.

Want a taste?

 

Blasphemous. 

Obscene.

Idolatry.

Sacrilege.

Impiety. 

 

Reverence for these lips.

Which lips?

 

Seen but not heard.

Blind eye.

Blind as a bat.

Will only see in the dark.

 

Shine a light?

Sorry I forgot the disconnect notice.

 

Tired, from the trailer hitched to my heel.

Can’t wash that smell off.

Helluva stain. 

 

Wearing my best grease stained white.

aMen.

Divided we fall.