We’re sitting here today on the heels of a 36-20 Patriots win over the Raiders (it’s still weird thinking of Cam Newton as the “Patriots quarterback” since that was Tom Brady for 20 or so years and to my knowledge the Patriots have never started a black quarterback in their history). Given that Cam Newton […]

It’s funny to think of entities in our world coming into existence. That is, a table comes from wood, and wood comes from trees, but what do trees come from? And if your life is composed of letting other people tell you how to dress, looking at numbers and computing them, and keeping a “company […]

I was lying in bed one night, wondering why they didn’t have a vaccine for AIDS. I’d just seen a story on Facebook, in September 2020, “Most Americans to be vaccinated for COVID by July,” meaning 2021. It was even a couple of months ahead of schedule. And I didn’t get into discussion of who […]

She stands as something That’s been scrubbed of animosity In a tie-dyed sanitation mask And we make great conversation, She high-fives me with her left hand (Which is maybe more casual than the right) And her body is what I like but . God damn I like a lot of things on this night Like […]

There is a question of whether, For black people, American experiences can be “ingenuous.” . If they are, Then Black people Truly have a home here. . Black people in America, Though, Typically, Are the leaders in arts, . And for artists, Experiences are fake, And their creations offer a foil Within the realm of […]

In your mind Is a fractal figment So base, So infinitesimal, . That it Can naught exist But in the spotlight and Among hordes of sweaty animals, Hoisting protest signs and Gathering press in Lashing out against your own natural miscellany.

Huh? Yeah, I like what you ’ ve done with the place. Those chairs are stacked up on that cart, big, soft chairs, one upside – down and resting on the other one which is right – side up. Things are changing. Human hands put those chairs there, on the cart, like that. Those human […]

The gay, bald, shaved-headed man Walks into the underside Of the suburban town And I look at him   For the same reason Why I listen to The Velvet Underground: He is the velvet, underground,   And I Know he will   Not bring me down as his Gait is focused   But his mouth […]

As a man I am composed of many layers And at my core I must admit lies Kiersten, As the layers we carry Every day As our skin Wind up morphing Into The Psychedelic stars of another, Inevitably, Anyway, And becoming interchangeable with them.   Kiersten was a wiry, Slender, Honest woman of 27 in […]

Not many But a few In the past Have said “Forget what you know” Or “Everything you’ve ever learned is wrong.” . Well, the world beats what you know Out of you eventually, Anyway, Which is why people turn a fatal disease Into a political issue, To reignite their own vocal chords, If nothing else. […]