Lunch in a Behavioral Middle School Class
Slurping up
chunky milk
from white styrafoam bowl
he looks up to me w/
wild jittery eyes
& says
"slop! I'm enjoying eating
slop"
--boy, just eat your lunch
What Tension Sounds Like
use inside voices
to make good choices
you can't allow them
to make you angry.
stop provoking your peer.
why are you yelling and
posturing toward
staff
SHE TOOK MY FUCKIN'
RADIO
is that a reason to yell
and get in people's faces??
Untitled
I thought she was gone
with her maple colored braids,
bright unstained smile; with smooth hands
and arms outstretched to comfort me
back to childhood.
No, i don't have mommy issues.
If I did, this soft woman would be
my zen therapist, blue crunchy zoloft
tab, all wrapped up,
into one.
She empowered me to take chances,
never got mad when I quit a job
big brown eyes watched me fall
in a cloud of dust; get up
dust myself off, and plan,
another hair-brained scheme.
She tirelessly watched me; at the time
I thought she never helped me...
But sometimes,
the most help you can give
is watching someone you love,
plunge head-first with air rushing out
their nose, into a deep dark canyon of
granite!
& not helping up.
Maybe, the best thing she did
was fall into my arms at bedtime,
with silence; Stared at me with confidence
open her smooth legs & accepted me.
I drove her crazy
with my on again, off again; I love you
if only you weren't a single mother,
yes, I'd marry you if we can
have a baby & you put me--first
I made her hair thin, grey, break &
fall, with each attempt to align the stars
to our dreams; I was collateral
damage to our relationship.
Being real I had to read
the blood in my veins, realized
I needed leeches to
expel & let loose all the
negative energy
that had gathered up
in the bowels of my valves--
I needed an exit
like my dad just had.
like my ex finally had.
like my mom just did.
An exit.
a gold-plated pathway, away
from the full bosomed
support wire that
snapped the experience of
expectation.
It, she, they,
are all
not coming back
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