Friday, May 30, 2014

Urban poetry with Maya Angelou


Curtains forcing their will
against the wind,
children sleep,
exchanging dreams with
seraphim. Dreaming of
punching elderly Jews,
smiling.The city
drags itself awake on
subway straps; and
I, an alarm, awake as a
rumor of war, it's the man
time to go to work, no I
lie stretching into dawn,
unasked and unheeded.

7 comments:

Trooper York said...

What?

Too soon?

ndspinelli said...

You're going to hell. That's where DiBlasio lives next door to you.

blake said...

Too soon for what?

Chip S. said...

Evi L. linked to this.

windbag said...

Let's face it, she sucked. And now it's racist and mean to point it out just because she's dead. It was like Mandela. The guy was a violent Communist, and to point that out was racist and mean. For all the squabbling about white privilege, it looks to me like there's some serious black privilege in the world as well.

Chip S. said...

The guy was a violent Communist

You surely know better than this, windbag.

windbag said...

Sorry, Chip, I know I can be redundant at times.