Personal and Confidential – Poetry for Anyone

Look

You don’t see

You walk by me on the street and see the

Hip slick cool spiritual jean wearing soon to be famous director aint nobody yet

Gal

You don’t know

I dream of running over cotton fields

With the dogs and white guys that aint seen a shower in ten days but can shoot you square on in the dead of night

I sometimes think that nothing I do will ever matter

but who’s listening to the loud crying voices in my soggy head but me anyway

Look

Look into my eyes

See the Queen gone broke but gonna matter and hit them all with the real juice just as soon as I’m done with this bill collector

Look past the

how are you and yes I’m just fine my uncle is dying and I’m getting divorced but isn’t it a wonderful day and hell that traffic sucks

bullshit

Wipe your eyes clear of the

if I tell it to myself enough it will be true but I can’t be more than everyone else otherwise they won’t like me

self destruction

Look

And you might see somethin’

July 22, 2002