Today I got an email from a relative, entitled “How to catch Obama”. It shows a box trap with a watermelon attached to the trigger.
Having just seen the movie “The Help”, I can only agree with Malcolm X, who wrote that the deepest, worst prejudice doesn’t come from the South, but is hidden in the North … until it is exposed.
To smell prejudice,
don’t search deep in Southern swamps.
Mother’s emails reek.
Sometimes the doldrums/
of the everyday leave you/
with nothing to say.
About live po’try:
When you perform improv poems,
nothing gets written.
OR
About improv poems:
When you perform live po’try,
nothing’s written down.
Say: I feel GREAT! A/
mirrored memory from long/
ago, it still works!
When one surrenders/
to “What is”, then one gives up/
what could and should be.
They spoke how they were:/
Finishing their rituals./
Should one stop good ways?
She’ll read others’ words./
Poems, prose, verse written before./
Her’s are not enough.
I do not need man’s/
nor God’s praise or approval./
HIS love is enough.
If you look for good/
or bad reasons to stay or/
leave, they will appear.
Wer Suchet, Der Findet — He who searches, finds. (German quote of Jesus in the Bible)
It’s weird to learn she/
doesn’t want to be “We”. I/
didn’t know we were.
OR
It’s weird to learn he/
Facebooked that they are “we”. She/
didn’t know they were.