Explore Poems: Subjects

On my way to the fertility clinic,
         I pass five dead animals.

First a raccoon with all four paws…

It's a rush, a sploosh of sewage, twenty thousand cubic metres being pumped in, stirred and settled …

& even when we said we were alone there was [       ] noise on the radio & there was [       ] noise in the car & there was [       ] noise all over the...

I wanna be bitchy
I said I wanna be a bitch
cause when you nice
true love don’t come
into your life

You get…

My life asks me a question.

I suggest a better question,
one I like more the sound of,
with more pleasing…

I sat under shelter in downpours—
the chair was light, it could have been easily moved.

I wept into tissues…

Yesterday I was so lonely
I could barely walk,
my friend being mobbed
by her grandchildren
as we made…

Openings
atmosphere

the meanings
like needing air.

Has the camera
a way to language

time? Of course…

I
remember I exist
at the braiding of
             consciousand con
          sumer,Kanaka
        and culpable,
      desire anddesired…

I know you’re hungry for it.
More money. More news. Desperate

for any laurel that parades you
as happier…

ornette ornette
Go listen to Ornette
Rambling Blessings
with Cherry Higgins Haden
O. D. C. B. holding church…

      Warm night of flesh pimples
             Alone
Fear pressing between my eyes the mark of despair
& my thighs once …

            Tell me about the good things
you clappin & laughin

Will you remember
or will you forget

Forget about…

Harsh Cries From
The Tomb Of
Little Rock
Blown In The Soul
Of The Pyramids
Where The Sphinx
Keep Watch…

From white lightnin to
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out      closed in
how do …

i am new york city
here is my brain of hot sauce
my tobacco teeth my
     mattress of  bedbug tongue
legs…

Why do people always choose saturdays
to wig out
I mean the ones who scream leave me alone
i hate your…

I witnessed
      the lynchings of Jonathan of George
and heard bulldozers coming
      for our ghetto tears

and…

I don't know what to do            two states of mind in me

In a world where each man must be of use
and each thing useful, the rebellious Jews
light not one light…