Sharks are 50 to 100 million years older than trees!

Guess which came first, dogs or fleas?

Fleas did, 65 million years ago

Back then, they drank blood from dinosaurs though

Dinosaurs would be cool, but we could all do without fleas

Still.

"Mother" a sacred word revered and worth its weight in gold children learn to bow their head and say their grace and bless the hands that made their plate and cracked the whip for heavensake to speak of hurt feels close to sin as though the tho...

Silence walked in like it knew my name told me chill everything don’t need to be explained as if to say don't look for no explanation I intuited the vibe ain’t feel no need to reply matched its energy and let the moment ride
Silence pulled up...

I saw a deacon picking up trash around our church’s parking lot

So I grabbed a broom to sweep up empty bags/vials of crack rock

But I still found several used condoms filled with ejaculate

Well, at least they are being safe, I pondered

Aft...

Cue the music

Strike up the band

Manufacture the tears

Manufacture the cheers

Sanctified in sequins lowercase lords

At the church of artificial gods

Superficial skin deep mini dieties and divas own the stage

Man made light illuminate singer...

Big momma hands stilled

The kitchen forgot its hymns

Mercy missed supper

was once a poet

then survived the rinse cycle

writer of poems

does healing look like progress a quiet home inside voices children who do not flinch when their name is called perhaps it does but healing is strange because sometimes it doesn’t erase pain sustained under a legal system where the laws were unw...

loose strands growing side by side twisting into one tangled vine strengthen by time grows together into one loc locked up forming a strong bond every coil remembers pot liquor folklore and language older than snapping purple hull peas on the ...

Given a spark of madness is the madness of insisting that all is, when all are miserable.

Difficult to free fools from chains they revere. When seeking revenge, dig two graves; one for madness, one for yourself.

Madness occurs in direct pro...

Christians praise a trinity but are monotheistic

Media is fiction we worship because its unrealistic

America was stolen and became rich off the back of slaves

Those thieves found heaven on earth then buried their sins in gilded graves

Burning down the Wickerman

holds like setting fire

to myself, I built to survive.

Every dry limb,

a lie carried,

every hollow rib, the fear I fed,

the woven smile,

a mask worn .

Flames whisper

as they rise,

a language...

when I say "please" am I asking or begging am I being respectful or begging for a chance to be heard what does “please” mean what does “please” get me besides practiced patience and almost things is "please" really a thing or a way to slap...