POEM A DAY 2020

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Here-ness
Ever ending
Narrows
Closer to a minute
Your likeness
Was too far off
To be handheld
Like mine
I will never again
Be sure

The trouble is in the land

It was a hate hoax
On a curse buried so so deep

But what’s that grin
As wide as victory
Seeing sweetness
With the bitter swallows fading
Out of sight
From the mountain top
That force stronger than gravity
Bending
A troubled land

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A time before land
Everything got erased
I think I was alive

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What happened to motherhood
Slowly dissolved
From overexposure
Skin touched skin
Again again again again
Once maddeningly sweet
Turned maddening
But still sweet somehow
Beneath that bitter herb, resentment
And the high boil of anger
Here and there
I'm still here

Shadow economy

What does it reveal:
The extra cold shadow outside the Whole Foods on Houston?
The straining whistle from one homeless man
To another across four lanes of traffic?
The new ancient grain for 6.99 a pound?
The aisles filled with employees
Pushing shopping carts full of goods
To be biked and lugged
and gently placed in soft hands?

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Those wise old drunks
Speaking truth to any passerby
You should see us when we’re sober
Seduction!
I’m sorry but I’m not man
It’s who I am seduction bro
I haven’t seen him in a couple days 
I’m worried about him

Look at his eyes man
Where’s he at?
Sorry man I’m a Sagittarius
I always looks up
It’s in my genes
Who wants to look at dirt
But we need it all
Earth Wind and Fire
Cabrón
New York child
You thought you were
Fast
But kids in New York... 
That is your number one
That’s you

Vice versa

And I don’t like asking nobody for the sky
You know that

Inheritance

It’s been a long time coming
And not for nothing
But I wasn’t here at the start
And yet
I am cut from this cloth
Which I forget
Morning noon and night
Oh the horror it takes
To shock me out right
I learned to hold tight
To this cloak and
Never let it slip

What’s yours

Now everyone is a consumer
4:30 and he still wasn’t back
Core and the enrichment
5 o’clock still wasn’t back
Loosies on the sidewalk
Lay your hair out for the taking
It’s all mine for the taking
I’ll show you the receipts