Indigent / outcast trailer trash flotsam. We are products of our surroundings.
Or is it upbringing Taken / down Far from home If it's where the heart is...
"Worthless idiot" She spits on me Like her rednecks and niggar ****
Her tricks Quick to flick Their Bics and ***** Bringing home the other Black.
Reynolds wrap and points at the back Hiding in the thickness Of weeping veils Of willows
Outside the picket fence Just beyond Royale Park mobile Community Missing it's gate All the times shivoo
When the South is clammy Sweat shop swamps And blistering Hot like Gold Coast fires / petrol dragons' breath (She's a mockery Of the word -- revelations Turning Now napkins and coasters Tissue for ****** noses.)
Vagrant vespers In the dark she lets the men Inside her double wide
Inebriated bruises Polka dot excuses
Even in the city It's funny How the homeless can hide Out in the open
Escape... Indigent / outcast Trailer trash Minutiae boy
Barely half / legally life blind And lucky to be alive Still in search of Some kind
Home.
This is from the perspective of a character in a story I am writing, he is a young poet who reads at open mic slams and recounts his life thru verse and spoken word. Later he will meet the businessman and their lives will shape and change each other just by being who and what they are. There will be a few more added later, enough to compile a chapbook for the epilogue of the story.
Note : this piece is all fiction from the point of view of the character Sol.