#sunprincess
sometimes the sticky-sweet of baltimore air
is a little too much
and screws pop loose like
bullets out of guns
back before the ghetto,
there was a white man who came here
married his cousin, went crazy
nevermore, nevermore
but now the park were he used
to play as a child is a public housing project
where the only poetry is that of puff-puff-pass,
chalk outlines peeling and melting in the midday sun
and a child who speaks to his murdered brother underneath his breath
as he pulls the trigger on his very first gun
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 10:22 PM UTC
i am a tiger
who's stripes are scars
and who's fangs
are words
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 9:54 PM UTC
this poem might be
the hardest to write ever
because i promised myself
i would be genuine
not exaggerate
not tell lies
so i guess
i should get started
and leave the prefaces to
the famous authors
not the poets
or the lost ones
--------------------
i have something to say to
you
you, who is beautiful
despite every word thrown from
an unknown hand
across a glass screen
you, who is beautiful
despite every scar or burn
or open wound you
inflicted on yourself
you, who is beautiful
despite every raised hand
and every shard of broken glass
in class, the kids with no faces and too much to say
you, who is beautiful
despite note you wrote and crumpled up
you used to write i'm sorry into your skin
but you have nothing to be sorry about
you, who is beautiful
despite everything anyone ever said to you
or anything you ever said
to yourself
you are still alive and alive and alive
because now the storm is over
and it's time for the rainbows to shine
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 9:26 PM UTC
in the la summer,
the heat doesn't whisper
it swells
and the hottest of the places
were the buses
big greenhouses on wheels
but i rode them,
for i had no car
and if i did
it would've been stolen
even though
i moved away from hidden hills
and now lived
on the face
of the sun
after a while,
i found my own
ways to rebel
drink gin out of
my water bottle
on the trip back home,
sit in the elderly
and handicapped
section
and that was what i was
doing when she entered the
bus
she was obviously ancient
and walked with a cane
so of course i moved to the side
as she passed me
the first thing i noticed
other than her skin that was almost purple
was the tattoo of the number
7
across her cheek
and no, this wasn't a young
woman
not the type to spend late nights
recording raps
for soundcloud in the back
of a crack house
we looked through each other for a
second,
and then she said to me
do you see it?
i shook my head
i didn't know what she
even meant
then she extended her hands
and still, nothing
was there
do you see it, she said again
i said no
she sighed
i have so much to tell you,
young woman
so much you need to know
i nodded
because when a crazy
old woman says things like that to you
you nod and smile
so much you need to know
her eyes were misted over
like lakes in the winter time,
cream in the bowl of
a tabby cat
we sat in silence
for a good while,
and then she looked at me again
in the summer, back home she said
when we left school
me and my friends would go drinking
there was a place called the golden shovel
and they had a huge pool table
me and mary would play, smoke cigarettes and
listen to jazz
it was the only time i
felt like i was alive
but when the cops came
mary was there, and i wasn't
they shot her dead
they said the bar was a hideout
for everything good and black
that my mother told me i should stand for
seven died,
and they said the golden shovel
was used to dig graves
i got this last year
she raised a long, peeling finger
to her cheek,
pointing at the seven
the bus ground to a halt as she
put her finger down
i looked at her
this is my stop
she said
before giving me a folded piece of paper
this is a poem i wrote
i took it and opened it, but by the time i
read it, she was already gone
*We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.*
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 5:59 PM UTC
/
I wonder / there is
any app in / play store to photoshop a / broken heart
to restore / to liven it
to lighten it / to brighten it
to straighten/ it to apply filter
to color, /to faint the scars
and/ to crop the
/ unwanted
/ one
.
Jul 9, 2017
Jul 9, 2017 at 4:04 AM UTC
-:-
I can't hear the sound
For the beating of drums
It is finished
Before it's begun...
My mind is rattling
But my muse hums!
SøułSurvivør
(C) 7/30/2017
Jul 30, 2017
Jul 30, 2017 at 6:05 AM UTC