POETRY/PUBLICATIONS
“catch 22 II” 2020 N. Masani Landfair for Fifth Estate
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poetry n. masani landfair
“predestined serendipity”
what if it is all completed
all done
every dream wish fantasy achievement
every taste touch
sight to be seen
every smell of foreign shores
scent of the adventured day
the touch as you lay your head on his arm to recall
and the recall remembers the day you sat and thought
of all the things you wanted to do only to accept that
they were done the second you thought of them
that it is all completed and our lives are just a struggle
to turn pages of our memory book
1:50 pm 2 18 2020
“negro unicorn”
the pain fuels her
to drive away
before shaking the
limited soul
of lost basic bitches
that steal to maintain
what will never exist
within them and their
limited future generations
she has learned
her power and ability that
moves her even when she
seeks shelter
in the nearest hidden place where
she sinks into acceptance that
her skin is a solar panel and shield
an infinite byte of unimagined binary
leaving hacks to trap those arrogant
enough to test her lineage
birthed from purity
she smiles in the knowing
smiles as the meek and
fruitless dance mechanical
before her, blaming her
for showing them their
portrait of dorian grey
she smiles walking away
to the work that is needed
to the work that is good
knowing if she has to pass that way again
the ruins will be all that remain
and despite her integrity
she will spit on the ashes
the last remnants of pain she may hold
2:05am 9 14 2020
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