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Match & Gasoline

Match & Gasoline

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there will always be the need for one more poem 2 describe how i feel

catch the word before it changes its clothes

and transforms into a new set

i must create new words 2 equal my pain

i tried 2 close the book

but my poems become like the world’s sins and they sit down in filth and multiply surround me, cause me 2 question my words

one poem asked, “why are you so in love with pain?” i answered, “pain is someone i have known

since i was conceived,

my mother’s pain grew in me and became strong,

i must write what i know”

a deep long dark poem asked me, “why don’t you conceal your pain and make your people smile?” the child is scared of the truth when it plays with the wrong side the truth must be spoken

even when it takes on a ugly form

it is simply the job of the artist to strangle the question until it bleeds the answer

my poems think 4 themselves and ask a final question, “will we be made 2 smile one day?”

i answer,

“when the world becomes like poetry naked and pure

when we look into our hearts


and discuss our fears like children, then you will smile”

my poems understand

and go into the world to find a sad soul 2 read them and question the world.





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