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THE SCIENCES SING A LULLABY
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
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Samuri Song
When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.
When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no thought I waited.
When I had no father I made
Care my father. When I had
No mother I embraced order.
When I had no friend I made
Quiet my friend. When I had no
Enemy I opposed my body.
When I had no temple I ( Read more... ) -
I Tried to Call First
Sometimes I overhear and sometimes I underhear.
Sometimes
you are thinking I am not here.
Sometimes
I am more here than I’d like to be.
Sometimes
protecting a reflection is like protecting yourself and washing your face sometimes
in a mirror long broken.
It’s a day to be remembered.
Did you sin and dream of confessing?
Did you confess and dream of ( Read more... ) -
Description |
A bird with a cry like a cell phone says something
to a bird which sounds like a manual typewriter.
Out of sight in the woods, the creek trickles
its ongoing sentence, with clusters of syllable
where it tangles and changes--from treble to baritone,
from dependent clause to interrogative.
The trees rustle over the house: they are
excited to be entering the ( Read more... ) -
Catch a Body
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell
anybody anything” is a string of words
I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink
to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract
by laser from the ribcage of all of us
who ever believed it, who felt afraid
to miss someone, to be the last one
standing. “Tell everyone everything” is
not exactly right, but I do ( Read more... ) -
june is the new april.
I'm not sure what I expected ( Read more... ) -
heartbreak theory
I'm standing on cliff's edge looking out onto what should be blue skies and clear water as far as ( Read more... ) -
riddle me this:
WHY in 2010 do black people still not have the same educational opportunities?
The same access to health care?
The same economic and employment opportunities?
Why are black people so disproportionately affected by this recession?
WHY in 2010 does it so often seem like like on an institutional systemic level black people are still disproportionately ( Read more... )
