shed his green Pepper tshirt  shorts

                                          naked     Christ its hot

Thas whaya get when you think about it

Aint it the truth

                     Aint it the truth

Why didya think about it

                             You were fine until you did

Computer screen lower left corner 82degreesF

                                     SUNNY

                                                     I hadnt been out in the day

Thought Id dip my toe in it

Dippin

             Ya decided to cut the lawn

It was only 82degrees

A manual rotor mower

Woudnt have anything else but

But not when you were a kid hustlin lawns

                                                If we remember correctly you bought your own gaspowered mower

Had a lot of weekend lawns to cut

Lotsa of leaves to rake lotsa of snow to shovel

Jah  I was hustlin

                        Had albums to buy clothes to buy

Your siblings didnt

They were okay with the clothing the folks bought forem

                                                             Clothes I wanted didnt appeal to my Maw

Hence  Hustle

Wasnt the responsibility of your parents lawn yours

Jah

         I used my Dads gaspowered mower for tha

And the leaves and the snow

Jah

Anyour siblings

Ive no idea

No idea

None

          I paid attention to mine  Im sure they had theirs

Caught them at dinner on weekends

 

Virtually     No idea

I was divorced of their doingskeepin balls in the air

    Were you ever a kid

Till I was nine

                  I came out

    Came out

Swingin

             For myself

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Es e

 

    Easy, what?

Was burdened with Es in my dreeams

she sighed

             What are you talking about?

Text  One dreeam was nothing but white words on a black screen

                                                                       Whichfrankly isnt any wilder than the night prior when I dreeamed in cartoons drawn by a lousy cartoonistnot me  I woudnt pickup a pen pencil paintbrush chalk to doodle nothing

    Not a doodler

You are

On occasion.

                  Yaremember the words?

Of course

            Began with creed the word held for a while  then like a slow slide projector it slipped from the frame to reveal the next Screed  Seed  Meek  Weakthank Gawd E  A not another pair of Es

Then a succession

Gave me enough time to wonder in between times if there was a message orif the nerd cartoonist had returned just to fuck with me another day  or night

 

I don’t know what to say.

Nothing to say Im just sharin

                                Thank you

I don’t, well, what the hell?you’re welcome.

Thank you

                Es e peesy huh

If you say.    

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1140,  Saturday

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGT0P0XJRFM 

Woud you keep a bird in a cage

                                    Feelin Maya Angelou  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Know it

Angelou. I’ve heard the name.

                                       It’s a book, isn’t it?

Autobiography

Not something I’d pursue, read.

    Why

Haven’t given it a thought.

Id recommend it

I’m really not interested.

Sympathy

              By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Maya lifted the line from him

                                Very capably

Claude McKay  Harlem Renaissance

                                           If We Must Die

Poetry.

Jah  Poetry

I don’t read poetry. If I were you I wouldn’t mention you do.

    Poetry

Poetry.

Wha the hells wrong with you

I might ask the same.

Id answer Langston Hughes

They’re black poets?

Jah

You only know black poets?

Shakespeare isnt

I was forced to read him.

His plays

                   His poetry

No.

Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Muscular

Carl Sandberg Chicago City of the Big Shoulders

 

 

No

Toldya.

          I don’t read poetry.

You think its effete  Feminine 

You said it not me.

 

  Youre pitiful

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Dunbar  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46459/sympathy-56d22658afbc0

McKay https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die

Harlem Renaissance  https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

Langston Hughes  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes   

Sandberg  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12840/chicago

carrying the kids from the car into the house up to their beds without them waking

                                                                                        fortunately

they only had two

he didnt have another arm for a third

that was something he did since he helped his parents carry his younger siblings in

    he liked it then

he likes it now

they knew couples who woke their children and made them walk

learning that they decidedhe insisted  they keep those families at arms length

they could not correct whatever it was that was deficient in them

                                                                         learned behaviour

 

You’re spoiling those children.

    they werent someone to say

                                You have to agree an inexpensive way to spoilem

A time will come when we wont be able to

                                                 Then

Our hearts will ache more than our arms an backs ever did

he pushed it

                even when the time came when he had to carry them separatelywhen they feigned sleep to be carried

he got it

            they enjoyed it as much as he

 

thats when one night as they laid in bed to sleep his wife kissed his shoulder  said

                                                                    You know, you’re spoiling the girls.

Ahbabe theyre mine to spoil    

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Kansas  Carry On Wayward Son  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_2IdybTV0