ODE TO TONI MORRISON

Reading Toni Morrison again

Ugly acts wrapped in beautiful words

Innocent souls trapped in dirty worlds

Some think Beloved is her ghost story

But to all black people

Slavery is their ghost story

Black woman with blue eyes

Black woman with dead child

Black men emasculated by white

This is no Colour Purple

This is no happy ending

This is the unending horror

Thank you Toni Morrison

For showing the ugly truth

And making beauty from it

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Life is beautiful

Like a retard singing in the subway

Like a chemical fire nightsky

Like a needleless day after chemo

Like an eggshell sucked dry by a rat

Life is beautiful

Never forget that

MORNING BREATH

My morning breath

First gasp of morning

Fresh as a sewer

Like living death

Comes with a warning

Your kisses to skewer

Christmas Morn

Awake early christmas morning

To buy flowers for a child never born

Sunny and cold as I drive

At home my heart, my wife

By the lake in this far land

Flowers for two in Japan