If you can have a day in my head
you’ll know how much I care
about you my dear friend
we broke bread
many tears we have shed
stayed up for hours
past curfew
simpson on the tv
talking about our issues
with a cup of coffee
late night drives
always getting high
we sat down in silence
watched time pass by
we had fights
the next day
we would apologize
forgive me if I assumed the worst
almost every girl i knew
I couldn’t trust
you're a real one for still keeping it a buck
u still here with me
I know I can be crazy
I can call u family
a sister and a little brother
a best friend
all in one
they say blood is thicker
than water
but with you that doesn't matter
i’m here for you
my dear friend
thank you
I love you
you take part in
my healing journey
for that you deserve all the worlds glory

First know this:
In my peoples’ history,
an old evil, revived,
a real pretend
a”new” enemy, but
merely a derivative of a-prior,
old name, same hatred,
irrational and raw,
rising up in every generation,
under cover of a ‘philosophy,’
lies buried a purity of motive,
purity of hate for hate’s sake

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For my people
and their beliefs
Our secret to our
survival is manifest,
you may have heard it called,
A Secret Chord (1)

Tears and Laughter,
Tears Behind Laughter
intertwined, or else,
we would not indeed be  
the long going on tribe
studied by curious
historians & idiots

me?
still crazy, after all these generations

Grandparents & Parents
chased by ‘professionals’
from places well known to you
(hey! we somehow got away
with huge luck, and courageous daring)

Not requiring your sympathy
not asking for a special empathy,
not rejecting your clucks,
but we manage
though tears aplenty
that we mask under a guise
via self-deprecating humor

I would love to tell
the Bible and the liturgy
is full of sly winks,
cutish double entendres,
bartender jokes,
but it ain’t necessarily so
don’t ya know

if the bible had made
gentle laughter at/of/
angelic & human foibles
and maybe
even God laughing at
all too human characteristics

but that’s a very big ask,
not sure He’s up to the task,
making fun of yourself
when you’re the
top of the chain
requires
humanility
which’s not a master’s
first calling
but should have been its
first blessing

so that’s up to us,
we irreverent creatures
of his design,
and why we are the absolute tgw only
species that cries
to express
sadness-
and mockery maker
of ourselves
the oy in
oh vey beings
Still crazy after all these years