• Poetry

    What’s Happening Here

    the White House a southern bell by design this gated plantation slave made foundation defies time for history tells only a few truths stories lost and made-up to keep peoples and troops under political thumbs and eyes of drones families captive in prison-like homes folks drunk on toxic food, drugs, liquor and beer keeping brains and minds unclear tv and news instilling division and fear veiling the global systematic slavery something we all have chosen not to believe so when you’re through hammering your last nail retirement parties and plaques that honor and hail when you finally sit back and toss up your feet be prepared — your ass might…

  • Poetry

    The Prison Door

    I met a man who showed me his past through a book His words came alive retelling his story of WWII Nazi Germany Holocaust Bombs, soldiers and concentration camps I saw through his eyes a young boy running from gunfire and hiding out to survive I saw a German prison door open inside only Jewish people Suddenly, I remembered what I had seen while visiting a US prison I saw the Missouri State Penitentiary door open inside only Black women I was horrified I remembered I felt powerless thinking there was nothing I could do to change the system So, I did what I could to help Then I went…