The Tamed Shrew
What a waste
The tamed shrew –
She could have won an Olympic gold,
She could have been a magnificent mime,
She could have written plays better than Shakespeare,
Excuse the sacrilege
Nine Lives
Look at the dead cat’s body
Sprawled on your neighborhood street
For ten minutes.
Look straight
Don’t blink.
Blame
I abjure responsibility for:
Colonialism,
White Privilege,
Slavery.
The Crucifixion,
The Book of Joshua,
The Settlements.
American Skies
I like to be
Stranger in a Strange land
Like to not be
where you are from
where I’m from
Not belong
an Other
Matrix
When inside,
You wish – out
So as to witness from a distance
How it ripples, waves…
When outside,
You wish – in…
Women of Kobani
No, you aren’t fighting just for your people,
The Kurdish Braves,
But for all of us,
The 51 percent –
The 100 percent.
The Tamed Shrew
What a waste
The tamed shrew –
She could have won an Olympic gold,
She could have been a magnificent mime,
She could have written plays better than Shakespeare,
Excuse the sacrilege
Nine Lives
Look at the dead cat’s body
Sprawled on your neighborhood street
For ten minutes.
Look straight
Don’t blink.
Blame
I abjure responsibility for:
Colonialism,
White Privilege,
Slavery.
The Crucifixion,
The Book of Joshua,
The Settlements.
American Skies
I like to be
Stranger in a Strange land
Like to not be
where you are from
where I’m from
Not belong
an Other
Matrix
When inside,
You wish – out
So as to witness from a distance
How it ripples, waves…
When outside,
You wish – in…
Women of Kobani
No, you aren’t fighting just for your people,
The Kurdish Braves,
But for all of us,
The 51 percent –
The 100 percent.