<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817</id><updated>2012-01-21T11:01:04.022-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gay Poetry</title><subtitle type='html'>This blog started out as a place to post Black gay poetry but as time has gone on I have widen the cope to inclue all of my gay poetry. Since no one leave a comments I am unable to know just what my readers think of my work so if you would like to contect me please free to do so at

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And thanks to everyone for spending your time here. Peace be with your in this time of wars</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1929</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2897315583177576313</id><published>2012-01-21T11:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T11:01:04.033-08:00</updated><title type='text'>01-21-12</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was tasting&lt;br /&gt;my balls to see&lt;br /&gt;the fit of them both&lt;br /&gt;in his mouth&lt;br /&gt;he was stretching his hole&lt;br /&gt;as I mounted him on the coach&lt;br /&gt;fucking is an art&lt;br /&gt;worthy of learning&lt;br /&gt;put this leg here&lt;br /&gt;put that one there&lt;br /&gt;swallow the sucking air&lt;br /&gt;slip in retreat&lt;br /&gt;then again&lt;br /&gt;find the rhythm&lt;br /&gt;that causes sweat&lt;br /&gt;exam the head&lt;br /&gt;while giving it&lt;br /&gt;explore ever corner of the bed&lt;br /&gt;I have tasted pricks&lt;br /&gt;as tiny as a child's finger&lt;br /&gt;I have found the juice&lt;br /&gt;of the fountain of youth&lt;br /&gt;in grown men&lt;br /&gt;and called it cum&lt;br /&gt;the taste of cum&lt;br /&gt;on my tongue&lt;br /&gt;on my cheeks&lt;br /&gt;riding down between&lt;br /&gt;my legs&lt;br /&gt;learn the business end&lt;br /&gt;of lust&lt;br /&gt;smoke the stiff warm pipe&lt;br /&gt;never rubber stamp&lt;br /&gt;your sex&lt;br /&gt;or hide it under night&lt;br /&gt;contemplate&lt;br /&gt;your approach&lt;br /&gt;get drunk on the&lt;br /&gt;the musk under his arms&lt;br /&gt;be healthy and harmless&lt;br /&gt;and enjoy your sexual lust&lt;br /&gt;chase him around the rooms&lt;br /&gt;to catch your reward&lt;br /&gt;work for it&lt;br /&gt;and it will come.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I jotted down his first name&lt;br /&gt;and added my last to his&lt;br /&gt;he is foxy and naughty&lt;br /&gt;and sweet of warm breath&lt;br /&gt;and make our bed&lt;br /&gt;squeaky with song&lt;br /&gt;when he mounts me&lt;br /&gt;his love never attack&lt;br /&gt;never pervert&lt;br /&gt;as he drag me willingly&lt;br /&gt;through the tangle of the sheets&lt;br /&gt;our love excommunicate&lt;br /&gt;the hatred of the church&lt;br /&gt;he sw3at my ass&lt;br /&gt;and sex delightfully&lt;br /&gt;stings and I buried&lt;br /&gt;my face deep within&lt;br /&gt;the region of heat&lt;br /&gt;that he keep between his legs&lt;br /&gt;he makes clever love&lt;br /&gt;as warm as stones in the sun&lt;br /&gt;slowly releasing it when&lt;br /&gt;the day is done&lt;br /&gt;I landed within him&lt;br /&gt;My weight on his skinny chest&lt;br /&gt;his body is a swamp&lt;br /&gt;complex in its sex&lt;br /&gt;full of life and moist lust&lt;br /&gt;that will birth me no sons&lt;br /&gt;I explore his manhole&lt;br /&gt;with my tongue&lt;br /&gt;I leave my spit&lt;br /&gt;on the hairs of his arm&lt;br /&gt;and he birth little sounds&lt;br /&gt;pants of half breath&lt;br /&gt;when I swallow the seeds&lt;br /&gt;that contain all of who&lt;br /&gt;he have become.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2897315583177576313?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2897315583177576313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2897315583177576313' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2897315583177576313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2897315583177576313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2012/01/01-21-12.html' title='01-21-12'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7379774183584541432</id><published>2011-12-30T13:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T13:37:02.370-08:00</updated><title type='text'>12-30-2011</title><content type='html'>12-30-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America is not legal&lt;br /&gt;its legacy is tinted&lt;br /&gt;tainted with her living lies&lt;br /&gt;she sucks the rimes&lt;br /&gt;out of her rhythm&lt;br /&gt;all questions she decline&lt;br /&gt;America is manless&lt;br /&gt;except for the blacks&lt;br /&gt;who are all fine&lt;br /&gt;America is a painted mirror&lt;br /&gt;her true self she refuse to see&lt;br /&gt;or she would be ashamed&lt;br /&gt;of the way that she&lt;br /&gt;treat dark you and dark me.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honor thy father&lt;br /&gt;bullshit!&lt;br /&gt;Mine was a bigamist&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Somewhere&lt;br /&gt;over my man's ass&lt;br /&gt;I get high&lt;br /&gt;somewhere&lt;br /&gt;dicks are waving&lt;br /&gt;o why can't I&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A nude black man&lt;br /&gt;exhausts me&lt;br /&gt;just to see&lt;br /&gt;the mounds&lt;br /&gt;of his ass&lt;br /&gt;brings me peace&lt;br /&gt;his forest of hair&lt;br /&gt;between my teeth&lt;br /&gt;I tongue his hole&lt;br /&gt;ever dark and sweet&lt;br /&gt;see&lt;br /&gt;a nude black man&lt;br /&gt;exhausts me&lt;br /&gt;then we sleep.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waiting, waiting&lt;br /&gt;for a cool drink of you&lt;br /&gt;man seeking God&lt;br /&gt;to screw and be screwed.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the bitches&lt;br /&gt;I know are all men&lt;br /&gt;they call themselves so&lt;br /&gt;bitch this, bitch that&lt;br /&gt;it's all that I can do&lt;br /&gt;as not to have a&lt;br /&gt;bitch attack.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luxurious complexions&lt;br /&gt;negro to black to&lt;br /&gt;high yellow and dirty red&lt;br /&gt;men with their musk&lt;br /&gt;driving me madly wild&lt;br /&gt;men stealing my love&lt;br /&gt;with a smile.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7379774183584541432?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7379774183584541432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7379774183584541432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7379774183584541432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7379774183584541432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/12-30-2011.html' title='12-30-2011'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8044257268891227983</id><published>2011-12-23T09:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T09:54:18.064-08:00</updated><title type='text'>12-23-2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speak your worst&lt;br /&gt;it will not stop&lt;br /&gt;my manly loving&lt;br /&gt;all said I still&lt;br /&gt;give head as&lt;br /&gt;one well bred&lt;br /&gt;I hark and herald&lt;br /&gt;and nail your&lt;br /&gt;accusations to&lt;br /&gt;your man made cross&lt;br /&gt;and glorious cum&lt;br /&gt;drips from my tongue.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prick can be used&lt;br /&gt;as a sword, as a club&lt;br /&gt;within my duel holes&lt;br /&gt;but my lover&lt;br /&gt;is so bold&lt;br /&gt;as to use his&lt;br /&gt;with tenderness.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is better said&lt;br /&gt;if I give head&lt;br /&gt;that the young boy&lt;br /&gt;coming into his new manhood&lt;br /&gt;knows that he is&lt;br /&gt;not along in what&lt;br /&gt;stirs his lorn.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listen and hear&lt;br /&gt;me clear&lt;br /&gt;he poked his dick&lt;br /&gt;into my ear&lt;br /&gt;he spread his legs&lt;br /&gt;and arched his back&lt;br /&gt;and I slipped in&lt;br /&gt;I did not attack&lt;br /&gt;gentle is my loving&lt;br /&gt;gentle is my hump&lt;br /&gt;gentle my rhythm&lt;br /&gt;of the glorious fuck.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suck deep&lt;br /&gt;I run my tongue&lt;br /&gt;I labor my breath&lt;br /&gt;when I come.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Men in love&lt;br /&gt;will not deceive&lt;br /&gt;the God made us&lt;br /&gt;the man to sexual&lt;br /&gt;please, we the ones&lt;br /&gt;who tongue the head&lt;br /&gt;we tangled in the sheets&lt;br /&gt;we who moan&lt;br /&gt;with delight&lt;br /&gt;we hide not&lt;br /&gt;in the night.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unjust are&lt;br /&gt;their calls&lt;br /&gt;that Settians&lt;br /&gt;should fall&lt;br /&gt;to a hell&lt;br /&gt;man made&lt;br /&gt;no God can tell&lt;br /&gt;that the love It made&lt;br /&gt;is a sin&lt;br /&gt;in the Christian way&lt;br /&gt;Jesus loved all&lt;br /&gt;and never condemned&lt;br /&gt;such hateful and&lt;br /&gt;mean spirited things&lt;br /&gt;are the fashions of men&lt;br /&gt;who wish to control&lt;br /&gt;what masculinity means&lt;br /&gt;as if it can be owned&lt;br /&gt;but we are strong&lt;br /&gt;as our sexuality is bold&lt;br /&gt;we men who love as God&lt;br /&gt;gave us to do&lt;br /&gt;we who love&lt;br /&gt;and fuck and screw&lt;br /&gt;we are much more&lt;br /&gt;then the sexual act&lt;br /&gt;but hateful men&lt;br /&gt;still attack&lt;br /&gt;my wounds were healed&lt;br /&gt;by fighting back&lt;br /&gt;with the love of God&lt;br /&gt;at my back.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God, why&lt;br /&gt;do men lie&lt;br /&gt;in your holy name&lt;br /&gt;is it because&lt;br /&gt;as corporations&lt;br /&gt;men can go insane?&lt;br /&gt;God, why&lt;br /&gt;the Christian lie&lt;br /&gt;that we sin&lt;br /&gt;against nature&lt;br /&gt;that made us&lt;br /&gt;to do as we do?&lt;br /&gt;We men born&lt;br /&gt;have human history&lt;br /&gt;on our side&lt;br /&gt;it will be proven&lt;br /&gt;by our science&lt;br /&gt;that nature over rules&lt;br /&gt;nurture&lt;br /&gt;that time will not lie&lt;br /&gt;as men are apt to do&lt;br /&gt;that we are born&lt;br /&gt;to it as true&lt;br /&gt;as each new year&lt;br /&gt;still we are born&lt;br /&gt;sisters and brothers&lt;br /&gt;stand strong&lt;br /&gt;loving your true love&lt;br /&gt;will not do you wrong.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disdain me&lt;br /&gt;if you will&lt;br /&gt;and you will&lt;br /&gt;I know&lt;br /&gt;I still will be&lt;br /&gt;no victim of your&lt;br /&gt;hatred, no ennui&lt;br /&gt;and will not pity myself&lt;br /&gt;because you are against me&lt;br /&gt;your insults and ill&lt;br /&gt;use of our God&lt;br /&gt;deprive only you&lt;br /&gt;from getting into heaven&lt;br /&gt;but pass a law&lt;br /&gt;and you will fall&lt;br /&gt;and you will&lt;br /&gt;see true&lt;br /&gt;that my words&lt;br /&gt;without a pause&lt;br /&gt;will nail the&lt;br /&gt;government to&lt;br /&gt;it's tin cross&lt;br /&gt;I am a fighter&lt;br /&gt;born to it by&lt;br /&gt;the color of my skin&lt;br /&gt;in America&lt;br /&gt;I will not let&lt;br /&gt;your barbarism stand&lt;br /&gt;you who corrupt&lt;br /&gt;the true sexual&lt;br /&gt;nature of man&lt;br /&gt;like me who&lt;br /&gt;love them dearly&lt;br /&gt;the way you corrupt&lt;br /&gt;religion gets&lt;br /&gt;all my disgust&lt;br /&gt;I shall fight&lt;br /&gt;with a polished tongue&lt;br /&gt;hear my words&lt;br /&gt;their meaning clear&lt;br /&gt;you are fore warned&lt;br /&gt;so let it began&lt;br /&gt;know this that&lt;br /&gt;in the end&lt;br /&gt;God will make&lt;br /&gt;you the victim&lt;br /&gt;of your own disdain.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8044257268891227983?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8044257268891227983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8044257268891227983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8044257268891227983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8044257268891227983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/12-23-2011.html' title='12-23-2011'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3540817190634977383</id><published>2011-12-22T14:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T14:17:12.593-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O what amorous lips</title><content type='html'>O what amorous lips&lt;br /&gt;are these&lt;br /&gt;dark as a storms&lt;br /&gt;over the sea?&lt;br /&gt;Swim in me&lt;br /&gt;and ride me well&lt;br /&gt;your body locked&lt;br /&gt;around all my cares&lt;br /&gt;this man in dress&lt;br /&gt;this lip I seek&lt;br /&gt;such taste of&lt;br /&gt;sweet reprise&lt;br /&gt;come close, come dear&lt;br /&gt;I will fulfill your needs&lt;br /&gt;to sex me with sex&lt;br /&gt;with rolled up sleeves.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3540817190634977383?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3540817190634977383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3540817190634977383' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3540817190634977383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3540817190634977383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/o-what-amorous-lips.html' title='O what amorous lips'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-166681751211608724</id><published>2011-12-22T12:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T12:50:14.542-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Forms everywhere</title><content type='html'>Forms everywhere&lt;br /&gt;in trees and&lt;br /&gt;blades of grass&lt;br /&gt;machine's made&lt;br /&gt;destruction filled&lt;br /&gt;the land&lt;br /&gt;radiant men&lt;br /&gt;sent to earth&lt;br /&gt;that i man&lt;br /&gt;lamp their darkness&lt;br /&gt;with my poems.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-166681751211608724?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/166681751211608724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=166681751211608724' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/166681751211608724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/166681751211608724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/forms-everywhere.html' title='Forms everywhere'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-116430084208679006</id><published>2011-12-22T12:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T12:46:53.935-08:00</updated><title type='text'>love me like</title><content type='html'>love me like&lt;br /&gt;graceful hesitations&lt;br /&gt;spike my love&lt;br /&gt;with another&lt;br /&gt;time is mile&lt;br /&gt;in the vault&lt;br /&gt;of the tender colors&lt;br /&gt;radiant hands&lt;br /&gt;benevolent smile&lt;br /&gt;such a man granted&lt;br /&gt;this torrid sex.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-116430084208679006?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/116430084208679006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=116430084208679006' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/116430084208679006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/116430084208679006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/love-me-like.html' title='love me like'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5015415735265146182</id><published>2011-12-22T12:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-22T12:33:49.281-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This genuine grace</title><content type='html'>This genuine grace&lt;br /&gt;this fashioned glass&lt;br /&gt;this unclean growth&lt;br /&gt;that sprout out&lt;br /&gt;my lover man&lt;br /&gt;the purest taste&lt;br /&gt;the aroma true&lt;br /&gt;the unclean fragrance&lt;br /&gt;the lovelier hue&lt;br /&gt;genuine flower&lt;br /&gt;embitter the garden&lt;br /&gt;winter weary&lt;br /&gt;I come to you&lt;br /&gt;you another man&lt;br /&gt;superb you can.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5015415735265146182?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5015415735265146182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5015415735265146182' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5015415735265146182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5015415735265146182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-genuine-grace.html' title='This genuine grace'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2892797763291078976</id><published>2011-12-21T18:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T18:19:01.442-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I watch him eat</title><content type='html'>I watch him eat&lt;br /&gt;across the table&lt;br /&gt;I smile he ask&lt;br /&gt;what?&lt;br /&gt;I say we are like&lt;br /&gt;the cardinal lovers&lt;br /&gt;feeding together.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2892797763291078976?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2892797763291078976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2892797763291078976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2892797763291078976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2892797763291078976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-watch-him-eat.html' title='I watch him eat'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5396863400878997976</id><published>2011-12-21T17:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T17:45:39.734-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Silly see sea</title><content type='html'>Silly see sea&lt;br /&gt;I see you&lt;br /&gt;said sadly&lt;br /&gt;so on the sue&lt;br /&gt;sends it's salt&lt;br /&gt;say yes just so&lt;br /&gt;certain men&lt;br /&gt;loves the blow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5396863400878997976?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5396863400878997976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5396863400878997976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5396863400878997976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5396863400878997976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/silly-see-sea.html' title='Silly see sea'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2363818419821451488</id><published>2011-12-21T17:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T17:38:26.611-08:00</updated><title type='text'>certain men</title><content type='html'>certain men&lt;br /&gt;come by night&lt;br /&gt;to others sheets&lt;br /&gt;they come with&lt;br /&gt;a great yes&lt;br /&gt;of love me tonight&lt;br /&gt;some convictions&lt;br /&gt;are ready men&lt;br /&gt;when the darkness&lt;br /&gt;hides their sex&lt;br /&gt;beneath the cross over&lt;br /&gt;some men hides&lt;br /&gt;their convection&lt;br /&gt;on the food of honor&lt;br /&gt;where the path&lt;br /&gt;is none-to certain&lt;br /&gt;some men ask again&lt;br /&gt;if you will love them tonight&lt;br /&gt;only in darkness do&lt;br /&gt;they reveal their&lt;br /&gt;hidden sexual self&lt;br /&gt;behind lies of nos&lt;br /&gt;I pack no fudge&lt;br /&gt;I slip not in&lt;br /&gt;I tongue no holes&lt;br /&gt;and drip not from the stiff.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2363818419821451488?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2363818419821451488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2363818419821451488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2363818419821451488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2363818419821451488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/certain-men.html' title='certain men'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-54635288313826627</id><published>2011-12-21T08:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T08:27:29.489-08:00</updated><title type='text'>14 shorts</title><content type='html'>fall's rain&lt;br /&gt;fills the air&lt;br /&gt;I walk&lt;br /&gt;behind him&lt;br /&gt;enjoying the view&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a black man&lt;br /&gt;in high winds&lt;br /&gt;I wish they&lt;br /&gt;were my hands&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the dead leaves&lt;br /&gt;rustle with wind&lt;br /&gt;far off he is&lt;br /&gt;calling to me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some men&lt;br /&gt;are powerful&lt;br /&gt;as the air&lt;br /&gt;that can not&lt;br /&gt;be seen&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he looks like&lt;br /&gt;a good lover&lt;br /&gt;he turns away from me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seeks a heart&lt;br /&gt;just for the night&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he is not&lt;br /&gt;as chubby&lt;br /&gt;as a buddha&lt;br /&gt;still his beauty&lt;br /&gt;will do&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when he walks&lt;br /&gt;down the alley&lt;br /&gt;it is a spring&lt;br /&gt;path to my heart&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more beautiful men&lt;br /&gt;have walk&lt;br /&gt;through allies&lt;br /&gt;then walked on water&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beautiful full lips&lt;br /&gt;are not&lt;br /&gt;a dine a dozen&lt;br /&gt;unless you only&lt;br /&gt;count black men&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;each day that I&lt;br /&gt;do not see him&lt;br /&gt;is not in vain&lt;br /&gt;the first snow&lt;br /&gt;and other natural things&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if he do not come&lt;br /&gt;I am reminded&lt;br /&gt;that I must also&lt;br /&gt;wait for spring&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned how to be&lt;br /&gt;intimate with him&lt;br /&gt;because nature&lt;br /&gt;is intimate with me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the cardinals&lt;br /&gt;and the robins&lt;br /&gt;never eat the bread&lt;br /&gt;I throw to the sparrows&lt;br /&gt;it seems that&lt;br /&gt;for that beautiful man&lt;br /&gt;I need some new poems&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-54635288313826627?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/54635288313826627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=54635288313826627' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/54635288313826627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/54635288313826627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/14-shorts.html' title='14 shorts'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2468184731981052538</id><published>2011-12-21T08:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T08:25:34.423-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I watched</title><content type='html'>I watched&lt;br /&gt;the sparrows eating&lt;br /&gt;and thought&lt;br /&gt;he only loves me&lt;br /&gt;with a full mouth-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2468184731981052538?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2468184731981052538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2468184731981052538' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2468184731981052538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2468184731981052538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-watched.html' title='I watched'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-356129237046831652</id><published>2011-12-21T08:23:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T08:23:21.953-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Five shorts</title><content type='html'>beautiful man&lt;br /&gt;he looks up&lt;br /&gt;and smiles&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when it comes&lt;br /&gt;to love&lt;br /&gt;autumn will leave you&lt;br /&gt;then spring will&lt;br /&gt;come for you&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the nuisance&lt;br /&gt;of his sleep&lt;br /&gt;he is dreaming&lt;br /&gt;hopefully of me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a dark man's face&lt;br /&gt;holds the shine&lt;br /&gt;of the sun&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he asleep&lt;br /&gt;beneath the tree&lt;br /&gt;will not know&lt;br /&gt;of my passing&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-356129237046831652?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/356129237046831652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=356129237046831652' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/356129237046831652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/356129237046831652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/five-shorts.html' title='Five shorts'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4361916909385275427</id><published>2011-12-21T08:13:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T08:13:48.599-08:00</updated><title type='text'>if god didn't</title><content type='html'>if god didn't&lt;br /&gt;want me to &lt;br /&gt;be gay&lt;br /&gt;it wouldn't&lt;br /&gt;have&lt;br /&gt;created&lt;br /&gt;beautiful men.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4361916909385275427?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4361916909385275427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4361916909385275427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4361916909385275427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4361916909385275427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-god-didnt.html' title='if god didn&apos;t'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2578750475317102516</id><published>2011-12-21T07:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:54:42.098-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Life led me by the hand</title><content type='html'>Love pushed me into a corner&lt;br /&gt;like it was the second coming&lt;br /&gt;pushed and grabbed at my genitals&lt;br /&gt;with its dark bushy hairs once&lt;br /&gt;a nest for men mouth&lt;br /&gt;and semen of doubts&lt;br /&gt;growing from the proving ground.&lt;br /&gt;I need a man as savage&lt;br /&gt;as money&lt;br /&gt; leaving&lt;br /&gt;and CinemaScope of mothers&lt;br /&gt;who give up their children&lt;br /&gt;for a new husband.&lt;br /&gt;I need a blues in my blood&lt;br /&gt;to live this American life.&lt;br /&gt;I need terrible memories&lt;br /&gt;once lost among my crawling&lt;br /&gt;moments held in the&lt;br /&gt;chamber of my doubts, digging for jass.&lt;br /&gt;Digging for and swinging love making&lt;br /&gt;and ragged ass scratching for a fuck&lt;br /&gt;from my heart's home.&lt;br /&gt;I can hear the train&lt;br /&gt;chuckling along&lt;br /&gt;in the corner of a small rain&lt;br /&gt;and the moon is wearing&lt;br /&gt;a laced grown made of&lt;br /&gt;whistling and thinking&lt;br /&gt;and beating back&lt;br /&gt;the journey to the&lt;br /&gt;promises made by the moon.&lt;br /&gt;Too soon the touch blossoms,&lt;br /&gt;too soon the condition&lt;br /&gt;of being human will kill you.&lt;br /&gt;Too soon is just&lt;br /&gt;an impressionistic mirror&lt;br /&gt;where only within you can&lt;br /&gt;see the true God.&lt;br /&gt;Too soon December&lt;br /&gt;is a weight for change&lt;br /&gt;and a Pope named&lt;br /&gt;Governor of the meek.&lt;br /&gt;The pores of my skin&lt;br /&gt;is as ecstatic as&lt;br /&gt;Hebrews leaking&lt;br /&gt;stuffed hitch cocks.&lt;br /&gt;Of Hitchcock&lt;br /&gt;Silent is my vacant ear,&lt;br /&gt;my vacated declares&lt;br /&gt;and beautiful ecstatic&lt;br /&gt;guilt of being nothing&lt;br /&gt;more then a man in love&lt;br /&gt;with mystic sorrows&lt;br /&gt;and damned innocent&lt;br /&gt;waiting to be born again.&lt;br /&gt;But life is leaking away&lt;br /&gt;from me by the tic of a second.&lt;br /&gt;Life led me by the hand&lt;br /&gt;to my death that wait and can&lt;br /&gt;hardly stand not to take me.&lt;br /&gt;Death waits in an East lake chair.&lt;br /&gt;Death to me have&lt;br /&gt;lied all the time but&lt;br /&gt;will not die out of my life&lt;br /&gt;until the time I&lt;br /&gt;have not the strength to requisite&lt;br /&gt;my resisting of it.&lt;br /&gt;Somewhere there is&lt;br /&gt;always living its life,&lt;br /&gt;all the years of our time.&lt;br /&gt;Somewhere the wind is alive,&lt;br /&gt;the running round of the stars.&lt;br /&gt;Alive life is the only God&lt;br /&gt;written in cosmetic's cosmic stuff;&lt;br /&gt;dust and dirt at dusk&lt;br /&gt;and decomposing&lt;br /&gt;of cold men and women.&lt;br /&gt;Life can not not be whimsical&lt;br /&gt;and uncalled for, for&lt;br /&gt;none asks to be born.&lt;br /&gt;Life is only by the whims&lt;br /&gt;of the Gods who birth us&lt;br /&gt;then leave us to fend for ourselves&lt;br /&gt;as we leave tracks&lt;br /&gt;in the hell am man's making&lt;br /&gt;but Nature will not long&lt;br /&gt;let us spoil the garden..&lt;br /&gt;The Gods do not speak English&lt;br /&gt;Nature is their interpreter&lt;br /&gt;and she have tings being born&lt;br /&gt;and dieing as not to care&lt;br /&gt;about the survivable of humankind.&lt;br /&gt;The priests can only&lt;br /&gt;translate for man made Gods&lt;br /&gt;and the priest is human&lt;br /&gt;therefore susceptible to the flesh.&lt;br /&gt;Only poets not the priest&lt;br /&gt;can translate what the Gods do not believe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2578750475317102516?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2578750475317102516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2578750475317102516' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2578750475317102516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2578750475317102516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/life-led-me-by-hand.html' title='Life led me by the hand'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-1305858762420339384</id><published>2011-12-21T07:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:48:17.530-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Completely wasted</title><content type='html'>Completely wasted&lt;br /&gt;sensual pleasure&lt;br /&gt;utterly mustered&lt;br /&gt;beside the bed&lt;br /&gt;with much to do&lt;br /&gt;about everything&lt;br /&gt;borrows small practical&lt;br /&gt;disdained sums&lt;br /&gt;of money in the&lt;br /&gt;money game&lt;br /&gt;small difficulty&lt;br /&gt;small cafe&lt;br /&gt;small was the&lt;br /&gt;long loosing day&lt;br /&gt;in 1896&lt;br /&gt;the bent erotic&lt;br /&gt;flowed to the&lt;br /&gt;sea and seriously&lt;br /&gt;probably it is so&lt;br /&gt;I mentioned beauty&lt;br /&gt;as being appropriate&lt;br /&gt;to the cause&lt;br /&gt;but the sympathetic&lt;br /&gt;never fall.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-1305858762420339384?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/1305858762420339384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=1305858762420339384' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1305858762420339384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1305858762420339384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/completely-wasted.html' title='Completely wasted'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7122729723272510511</id><published>2011-12-21T07:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:47:41.170-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Equally brain</title><content type='html'>Equally brain&lt;br /&gt;beautiful brain&lt;br /&gt;nervous state&lt;br /&gt;day kisses kissed&lt;br /&gt;and  hug to want&lt;br /&gt;beloved face&lt;br /&gt;impeccable legs&lt;br /&gt;and horse hair beard&lt;br /&gt;beautiful&lt;br /&gt;consummation of&lt;br /&gt;lacking nothing real&lt;br /&gt;desired and well bread&lt;br /&gt;as any lover save the first&lt;br /&gt;well bred as&lt;br /&gt;any lover man&lt;br /&gt;pseudo-beauty&lt;br /&gt;drink and blunts&lt;br /&gt;boredom with the fuck&lt;br /&gt;that is me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7122729723272510511?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7122729723272510511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7122729723272510511' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7122729723272510511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7122729723272510511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/equally-brain.html' title='Equally brain'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4542438295983683614</id><published>2011-12-21T07:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:40:24.633-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wallow me wrung</title><content type='html'>Wallow me wrung&lt;br /&gt;to brothels or tavern&lt;br /&gt;Tamides left me in the lurch&lt;br /&gt;right me epochal to acquired&lt;br /&gt;all my debaucheries are stored&lt;br /&gt;in the church smelling of&lt;br /&gt;fragrance&lt;br /&gt;it is what I possess&lt;br /&gt;abjectly the Nile&lt;br /&gt;is always wet&lt;br /&gt;as the desert advance&lt;br /&gt;Alexandria's son is shabby&lt;br /&gt;with wants constant beauty&lt;br /&gt;remains the fleshy&lt;br /&gt;part of who he be&lt;br /&gt;beauty is full of two years&lt;br /&gt;and marvelous men in between&lt;br /&gt;the fragrance and the fish.&lt;br /&gt;If all our days&lt;br /&gt;instantly the hour&lt;br /&gt;approaches handsome&lt;br /&gt;of face with his spinets&lt;br /&gt;introverts sixty pounds in a&lt;br /&gt;gambling house where&lt;br /&gt;unexpected to loose&lt;br /&gt;is no good news&lt;br /&gt;the honorable household&lt;br /&gt;is depraved with out&lt;br /&gt;of heart power and expensive&lt;br /&gt; thinking that it is at all&lt;br /&gt;that four )'clock the grave is given&lt;br /&gt;and bedrooms full of marvelous men&lt;br /&gt;spend their smokes of their cigarettes&lt;br /&gt;in rings of troublesome thoughts&lt;br /&gt;that hallo the heads&lt;br /&gt;of giving head and getting wed in bed&lt;br /&gt;mechanically the lungs takes in smoothly&lt;br /&gt;are all over our breath&lt;br /&gt;newspaper cafe  are full of empty eyes&lt;br /&gt;and presently it is since ten thirty-five&lt;br /&gt;the entire reading drinks plenty when&lt;br /&gt;the slightest doubt is a handicap&lt;br /&gt;of hardship blessing let it&lt;br /&gt;investigate let it inquire&lt;br /&gt;to reform immediately the&lt;br /&gt;radicals storms the blessings&lt;br /&gt;put up to block the way&lt;br /&gt;perhaps today we wait&lt;br /&gt;perhaps the needed ones will&lt;br /&gt;be needed&lt;br /&gt;perhaps the request will be granted&lt;br /&gt;or grand guilds bent their backs&lt;br /&gt;and shot the hole through&lt;br /&gt;possession trimmed and tanned&lt;br /&gt;rightful and minuteman&lt;br /&gt;we defined the carrying out&lt;br /&gt;of ourselves we one still in&lt;br /&gt;our demands ingenuity surgical to do&lt;br /&gt;is excesses of top seeking&lt;br /&gt;this is true and as so&lt;br /&gt;as hard as a surprise&lt;br /&gt;by love and when&lt;br /&gt;and then and this and that&lt;br /&gt;other then the precisely\propose the sacrifices of the souls&lt;br /&gt;of the last investigation&lt;br /&gt;into the everything whole.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4542438295983683614?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4542438295983683614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4542438295983683614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4542438295983683614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4542438295983683614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/wallow-me-wrung.html' title='Wallow me wrung'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6317382978672911129</id><published>2011-12-21T07:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:39:10.176-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kleitos</title><content type='html'>Kleitos found&lt;br /&gt;morally sympathetic&lt;br /&gt;exhausted with&lt;br /&gt;love making of his man&lt;br /&gt;critically he woos&lt;br /&gt;the servant who&lt;br /&gt;raised him when&lt;br /&gt;he took the boy in&lt;br /&gt;Kleitos trembles&lt;br /&gt;within his youth&lt;br /&gt;his terrible anxiety&lt;br /&gt;is that he love to deeply&lt;br /&gt;that he worship the turning&lt;br /&gt;of all Christians one by one&lt;br /&gt;they fall from the cross&lt;br /&gt;and stigmata bleed with the mind&lt;br /&gt;of an idiot with pancake eyes&lt;br /&gt;secretly he loves&lt;br /&gt;like living on the edge&lt;br /&gt;kleitos is to sympathetic toward&lt;br /&gt;youths he have found in Greece&lt;br /&gt;in that learning all of which&lt;br /&gt;he exhausted like Padma&lt;br /&gt;on leave to his holy land&lt;br /&gt;Kleitos met a young actor&lt;br /&gt;in an Oneal play&lt;br /&gt;the fever that decimated&lt;br /&gt;his loving ways told him not to&lt;br /&gt;trust anything straggle or&lt;br /&gt;sweeter then pure honey&lt;br /&gt;illustrious in his make.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6317382978672911129?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6317382978672911129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6317382978672911129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6317382978672911129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6317382978672911129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/kleitos.html' title='Kleitos'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6835855716293267582</id><published>2011-12-21T07:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:38:27.586-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'll be your</title><content type='html'>I'll be your&lt;br /&gt;lady in love tonight&lt;br /&gt;if you want me to&lt;br /&gt;I'll be all for you&lt;br /&gt;the one is so hard to find&lt;br /&gt;one and one will always be two&lt;br /&gt;as our love is true&lt;br /&gt;make your love to my mind&lt;br /&gt;and our bodies will follow&lt;br /&gt;no other need bother&lt;br /&gt;they don't have a clue&lt;br /&gt;about me and you&lt;br /&gt;I'll be your lady in love tonight&lt;br /&gt;if you want me to&lt;br /&gt;it's all up to you&lt;br /&gt;stand by my side&lt;br /&gt;in light and in darkness&lt;br /&gt;I will witness that it is you&lt;br /&gt;the one true lover&lt;br /&gt;and how you do.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6835855716293267582?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6835855716293267582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6835855716293267582' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6835855716293267582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6835855716293267582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/ill-be-your.html' title='I&apos;ll be your'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5378836018297474334</id><published>2011-12-21T07:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:37:43.580-08:00</updated><title type='text'>let me build</title><content type='html'>let me build&lt;br /&gt;within your heart&lt;br /&gt;a bridge never&lt;br /&gt;torn apart&lt;br /&gt;step up into my heart&lt;br /&gt;I wait for you&lt;br /&gt;to do as you do&lt;br /&gt;to love me true&lt;br /&gt;we the two who woo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5378836018297474334?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5378836018297474334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5378836018297474334' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5378836018297474334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5378836018297474334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/let-me-build.html' title='let me build'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8849755731834779513</id><published>2011-12-21T07:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:34:07.278-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wanted</title><content type='html'>Wanted&lt;br /&gt;a Cimon&lt;br /&gt;a handsome man&lt;br /&gt;a sensitive longing&lt;br /&gt;a king Clemenes&lt;br /&gt;in Spartan&lt;br /&gt;a demurred man&lt;br /&gt;me single Settian man&lt;br /&gt;6'2 170#&lt;br /&gt;willing to try&lt;br /&gt;all but crime&lt;br /&gt;against the soul&lt;br /&gt;will the store&lt;br /&gt;and to before&lt;br /&gt;my time die&lt;br /&gt;you Egypt&lt;br /&gt;guarantee of&lt;br /&gt;being black&lt;br /&gt;strong of thighs&lt;br /&gt;and upper back&lt;br /&gt;with your mouth&lt;br /&gt;full of rumors&lt;br /&gt;and hands full&lt;br /&gt;of doubts&lt;br /&gt;you laughed at&lt;br /&gt;but certainty&lt;br /&gt;and able to&lt;br /&gt;indifferent&lt;br /&gt;the Spartan;s pride&lt;br /&gt;all that I request&lt;br /&gt;is that you be&lt;br /&gt;who you are with your skin&lt;br /&gt;illustrious as a&lt;br /&gt;Spartan king.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8849755731834779513?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8849755731834779513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8849755731834779513' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8849755731834779513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8849755731834779513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/wanted.html' title='Wanted'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6431626869694579418</id><published>2011-12-21T07:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:32:48.774-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Retort my religion lust</title><content type='html'>Retort my religion lust&lt;br /&gt;concerning my beliefs&lt;br /&gt;that god is a she&lt;br /&gt;understand the&lt;br /&gt;empty-headed Julian of Greece&lt;br /&gt;clever man that will not&lt;br /&gt;condemn the ludicrous man&lt;br /&gt;who in his religious way&lt;br /&gt;will not wait&lt;br /&gt;till kingdom come&lt;br /&gt;such men have won&lt;br /&gt;the understood&lt;br /&gt;condemnation of any son&lt;br /&gt;go I yes go&lt;br /&gt;annihilate the sun&lt;br /&gt;that is the weight of&lt;br /&gt;the motion of all that&lt;br /&gt;you have won the booties&lt;br /&gt;of wars the friend's benefit&lt;br /&gt;of the kill you read into it&lt;br /&gt;as a under-christian&lt;br /&gt;like under-cover brothers&lt;br /&gt;in fro and dashiki&lt;br /&gt;and ludicrous love&lt;br /&gt;sent from above&lt;br /&gt;mined from below&lt;br /&gt;the annihilation is cold&lt;br /&gt;as day old gold&lt;br /&gt;now concerning you&lt;br /&gt;religion beliefs or your God&lt;br /&gt;or Hermeteles or me&lt;br /&gt;sleep a short while&lt;br /&gt;notice often the swell&lt;br /&gt;and ideal love is&lt;br /&gt;grief-grief-stricken  &lt;br /&gt;with lust receive&lt;br /&gt;the epitaph&lt;br /&gt;your cousin in love&lt;br /&gt;the last days are&lt;br /&gt;spited into my color&lt;br /&gt;and we grow together&lt;br /&gt;we deeply grieve&lt;br /&gt;we resentment of&lt;br /&gt;all that is weak&lt;br /&gt;of souls entirely&lt;br /&gt;I have stolen&lt;br /&gt;from Mary Lou&lt;br /&gt;that Mary of God&lt;br /&gt;Aristodemes is cold&lt;br /&gt;as a satiated snow&lt;br /&gt;the end is near&lt;br /&gt;and during our last days&lt;br /&gt;of the first that waits within&lt;br /&gt;a poet once told me with&lt;br /&gt;his red weepings of green and yellow&lt;br /&gt;buying the market place&lt;br /&gt;on a dine of doing time&lt;br /&gt;as a man within his skin&lt;br /&gt;and I O yes I&lt;br /&gt;the bully bull of a boy&lt;br /&gt;did drop my draw and let it in&lt;br /&gt;he told me with hoe dead eyes&lt;br /&gt;that destine is a traitor&lt;br /&gt;and teller of lies&lt;br /&gt;he told me that&lt;br /&gt;I world rise down round the west end&lt;br /&gt;and find my south just north&lt;br /&gt;of the border and that I&lt;br /&gt;will cover with words&lt;br /&gt;the sky and that my&lt;br /&gt;friend the painter&lt;br /&gt;Steve will paint&lt;br /&gt;satisfying as I feigning of spites&lt;br /&gt;and perhaps under weed my love of him&lt;br /&gt;and all men of human's's make&lt;br /&gt;Cimon my cousin kin&lt;br /&gt;grief-stricken to his&lt;br /&gt;soul's gate waits&lt;br /&gt;by the grave stone no bigger&lt;br /&gt;then a apple skipped a&lt;br /&gt;cross the river of graves&lt;br /&gt;he waits the return of sensitive&lt;br /&gt;resentment grow, yes grow&lt;br /&gt;together deeply grow with&lt;br /&gt;all images between thee&lt;br /&gt;grow like sorrow close&lt;br /&gt;to the end grow, yes grow&lt;br /&gt;into an imagined man&lt;br /&gt;see now the taken&lt;br /&gt;henceforth malnourished&lt;br /&gt;and excuse and wild&lt;br /&gt;hair never the same&lt;br /&gt;receive me receive&lt;br /&gt;this poem as if it is&lt;br /&gt;all through one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6431626869694579418?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6431626869694579418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6431626869694579418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6431626869694579418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6431626869694579418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/retort-my-religion-lust.html' title='Retort my religion lust'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3894520858591030966</id><published>2011-12-21T07:27:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:27:56.644-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I have seen him</title><content type='html'>I have seen him&lt;br /&gt;regularly in the tavern&lt;br /&gt;slipping his run and coke&lt;br /&gt;entirely unknown&lt;br /&gt;to who I be slowly&lt;br /&gt;I do approach&lt;br /&gt;manly figure is he&lt;br /&gt;suspicious is his&lt;br /&gt;manly needs&lt;br /&gt;I understood precisely&lt;br /&gt;he that gave no change&lt;br /&gt;to any black man such as me&lt;br /&gt;and still I approach on&lt;br /&gt;to his side where&lt;br /&gt;on the bar he rest his arm&lt;br /&gt;a steel gray a pleasing smile&lt;br /&gt;that pleasure my ends&lt;br /&gt;dark curry hair&lt;br /&gt;as wild as I desire it&lt;br /&gt;I ask, is it lust&lt;br /&gt;that slick your mind&lt;br /&gt;is it union that I desire&lt;br /&gt;naturally I am&lt;br /&gt;not of your kind&lt;br /&gt;and you insignificance&lt;br /&gt;is plainly known&lt;br /&gt;that black man&lt;br /&gt;have the oldest soul?&lt;br /&gt;I suffer no flesh&lt;br /&gt;no persistent desires&lt;br /&gt;to touch me is to&lt;br /&gt;set yourself afire&lt;br /&gt;I am the first Adam&lt;br /&gt;to an Adam born&lt;br /&gt;I am the union&lt;br /&gt;between the moon and the sun&lt;br /&gt;I betray no God and then &lt;br /&gt;I am still only a man&lt;br /&gt;entrance into my world&lt;br /&gt;is but an understood thing&lt;br /&gt;before you sat  your denial&lt;br /&gt;sit and enter me&lt;br /&gt;as if you wish&lt;br /&gt;to entertain the ideal&lt;br /&gt;that I will not go about&lt;br /&gt;exposing your disastrous&lt;br /&gt;scandals that you keep&lt;br /&gt;just below the something&lt;br /&gt;of your dreams&lt;br /&gt;three weeks did I woo&lt;br /&gt;and not a kiss did he spare&lt;br /&gt;still I suffer not&lt;br /&gt;his own weariness&lt;br /&gt;until the time I last saw him&lt;br /&gt;I did not look to see&lt;br /&gt;if he was still sick&lt;br /&gt;with lust and longing&lt;br /&gt;for a black man to fuck&lt;br /&gt;beware of he who quickly&lt;br /&gt;expose his indifference&lt;br /&gt;by way of the entrance&lt;br /&gt;made by words&lt;br /&gt;still comes the night&lt;br /&gt;of bar fights&lt;br /&gt;and dark drunk men&lt;br /&gt;made by the poetic word&lt;br /&gt;that I woo to get in&lt;br /&gt;the night regularly without a fight.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3894520858591030966?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3894520858591030966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3894520858591030966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3894520858591030966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3894520858591030966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-have-seen-him.html' title='I have seen him'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4001523788751406149</id><published>2011-12-21T07:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T07:27:08.220-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Youth is ablaze</title><content type='html'>Youth is ablaze&lt;br /&gt;with being young&lt;br /&gt;its amusement into&lt;br /&gt;the name of creamy cum&lt;br /&gt;into its activity&lt;br /&gt;what is won, the birth&lt;br /&gt;of a daughter&lt;br /&gt;or son, ask me&lt;br /&gt;who is he&lt;br /&gt;this vulgar construct&lt;br /&gt;of watery day&lt;br /&gt;detestable in his needs&lt;br /&gt;to deceive the deceiver&lt;br /&gt;the day is in training&lt;br /&gt;to be your own tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;the statue is ivory and &lt;br /&gt;gold the tumble of the tremble&lt;br /&gt;are full of holy holes&lt;br /&gt;and propel conduct is no more&lt;br /&gt;little however it be so&lt;br /&gt;the talking tongue&lt;br /&gt;are salts of sores&lt;br /&gt;the knavish lad&lt;br /&gt;bend forward his back&lt;br /&gt;in loving motion the&lt;br /&gt;prick attacks&lt;br /&gt;it is not enough&lt;br /&gt;the poet's word&lt;br /&gt;to run around the words that run&lt;br /&gt;already the day is baked in clay&lt;br /&gt;already the young waits&lt;br /&gt;on another slacken but of fun&lt;br /&gt;that desires the flesh of the young&lt;br /&gt;love torn my lorn ablaze the night&lt;br /&gt;and beautiful black men&lt;br /&gt;fills all me sight limited&lt;br /&gt;by the city's grayness of night&lt;br /&gt;the city waits for&lt;br /&gt;the amusements of night&lt;br /&gt;and darkness flings itself&lt;br /&gt;into the business end of day&lt;br /&gt;the general employee&lt;br /&gt;have not been paid&lt;br /&gt;mankind can not do without&lt;br /&gt;his slaves, sexual or of the soul&lt;br /&gt;he dash his wreckage of words&lt;br /&gt;he dash  his work of words&lt;br /&gt;into every hole&lt;br /&gt;such a sin have it always been&lt;br /&gt;never one to sin no more&lt;br /&gt;the moon is still gray&lt;br /&gt;monotonous and some did&lt;br /&gt;will fall but not tonight&lt;br /&gt;as you bed your dreams&lt;br /&gt;for the desires of the flesh&lt;br /&gt;isn't always clean&lt;br /&gt;voluptuousness I find&lt;br /&gt;in your name&lt;br /&gt;figure your lust with&lt;br /&gt;my sexual guns&lt;br /&gt;possesses is the last&lt;br /&gt;lustful way that beautiful&lt;br /&gt;blacks men knows hot to play.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4001523788751406149?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4001523788751406149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4001523788751406149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4001523788751406149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4001523788751406149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/youth-is-ablaze.html' title='Youth is ablaze'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-176903865122390902</id><published>2011-12-20T19:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:53:21.847-08:00</updated><title type='text'>here my love</title><content type='html'>here my love&lt;br /&gt;the day breaks open&lt;br /&gt;just because&lt;br /&gt;it has been&lt;br /&gt;done before.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-176903865122390902?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/176903865122390902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=176903865122390902' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/176903865122390902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/176903865122390902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/here-my-love_20.html' title='here my love'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4027812406524931318</id><published>2011-12-20T19:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:51:44.342-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What misfortune</title><content type='html'>What misfortune&lt;br /&gt;verse the dead&lt;br /&gt;what christian mourning&lt;br /&gt;stalks the vestibule&lt;br /&gt;what is kept from the truth&lt;br /&gt;when strange pleasure&lt;br /&gt;of verses to the adored&lt;br /&gt;speaks in low voices&lt;br /&gt;full of the night's dark&lt;br /&gt;the last day of the Christ&lt;br /&gt;is constantly on our lips&lt;br /&gt;and supplications of Mary&lt;br /&gt;combs the rooms&lt;br /&gt;where the middle&lt;br /&gt;age man\come too soon&lt;br /&gt;and immodest boys&lt;br /&gt;tugs at their tools&lt;br /&gt;and the perfect sense&lt;br /&gt;of rhythm is gold&lt;br /&gt;to my silver to&lt;br /&gt;what I hold&lt;br /&gt;Mithridates tops&lt;br /&gt;the hill with his man&lt;br /&gt;and powerful cities&lt;br /&gt;made of sand&lt;br /&gt;dissolve in the rain&lt;br /&gt;the bitten path&lt;br /&gt;leaves you to&lt;br /&gt;the soothsayer&lt;br /&gt;who dwells in the future&lt;br /&gt;when power is born&lt;br /&gt;and the secret place&lt;br /&gt;in my heart offers&lt;br /&gt;no clarity of opinions&lt;br /&gt;send in the offers&lt;br /&gt;of my heart&lt;br /&gt;send in the&lt;br /&gt;sufficient of poetic art&lt;br /&gt;understand the distinguished one&lt;br /&gt;who shadowy run&lt;br /&gt;expose the perils&lt;br /&gt;of poetry and let&lt;br /&gt;the ancestors be&lt;br /&gt;content to lie in&lt;br /&gt;their graves and &lt;br /&gt;wait the wait of&lt;br /&gt;man's coming downfall&lt;br /&gt;King Mithridates&lt;br /&gt;salutary as on&lt;br /&gt;spears my fortune&lt;br /&gt;with the pen&lt;br /&gt;unexpected to be let in&lt;br /&gt;let the noble companion&lt;br /&gt;remembered the traces&lt;br /&gt;of time as if only&lt;br /&gt;time is divine&lt;br /&gt;the vestibule wept&lt;br /&gt;it's reunion out of joint&lt;br /&gt;and excursions&lt;br /&gt;plumb the perils&lt;br /&gt;that wait the wait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4027812406524931318?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4027812406524931318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4027812406524931318' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4027812406524931318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4027812406524931318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-misfortune.html' title='What misfortune'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6943924610933944559</id><published>2011-12-20T19:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:49:04.230-08:00</updated><title type='text'>old man</title><content type='html'>old man&lt;br /&gt;actor brought&lt;br /&gt;to entertain&lt;br /&gt;the young&lt;br /&gt;with your wisdom&lt;br /&gt;elder of the&lt;br /&gt;drawing room&lt;br /&gt;never come&lt;br /&gt;too soon&lt;br /&gt;you mingled&lt;br /&gt;with crinolines&lt;br /&gt;and Africa&lt;br /&gt;you who love&lt;br /&gt;the perfume&lt;br /&gt;of middle aged&lt;br /&gt;men&lt;br /&gt;recite your love&lt;br /&gt;with a sexual tune&lt;br /&gt;shall I forbearance&lt;br /&gt;your skin with&lt;br /&gt;my musk?&lt;br /&gt;My garden flower to pluck&lt;br /&gt;growing in the dark&lt;br /&gt;the darkness of your skin&lt;br /&gt;the epigrams&lt;br /&gt;euphoria is dead&lt;br /&gt;of love in his bed&lt;br /&gt;the stressing is&lt;br /&gt;not necessary&lt;br /&gt;the sacred valor&lt;br /&gt;of hidden love letters&lt;br /&gt;in a shoe box&lt;br /&gt;in the dark&lt;br /&gt;perhaps not&lt;br /&gt;fanatic shouts&lt;br /&gt;lies like leaping love&lt;br /&gt;the quatrain pleases me&lt;br /&gt;the phrases betray&lt;br /&gt;that Prometheus&lt;br /&gt;is a tragedy waiting&lt;br /&gt;to happen and he&lt;br /&gt;who is brilliantly with age roll&lt;br /&gt;the boulder up hill&lt;br /&gt;is a reminder of all my fears&lt;br /&gt;it was seven&lt;br /&gt;against Thebes&lt;br /&gt;it was Datis and&lt;br /&gt;his ranks of soldiers&lt;br /&gt;who demanded&lt;br /&gt;that time be&lt;br /&gt;put on trial&lt;br /&gt;too many poets&lt;br /&gt;are cowardice&lt;br /&gt;with their quatrains&lt;br /&gt;and rimes stressed the stressing&lt;br /&gt;a dead language&lt;br /&gt;famous for being dead&lt;br /&gt;when it is the spirited&lt;br /&gt;letters that are&lt;br /&gt;the living language&lt;br /&gt;that are forming&lt;br /&gt;within the head&lt;br /&gt;to many old men&lt;br /&gt;become stale with&lt;br /&gt;well wishing phrases&lt;br /&gt;also done down and dead&lt;br /&gt;I expect to grow old&lt;br /&gt;like Cassandra bold&lt;br /&gt;remarkable in my skin&lt;br /&gt;but now the hour is not near.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6943924610933944559?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6943924610933944559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6943924610933944559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6943924610933944559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6943924610933944559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/old-man_20.html' title='old man'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8291533209652956745</id><published>2011-12-20T19:47:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:47:37.550-08:00</updated><title type='text'>light the dim candle</title><content type='html'>light the dim candle&lt;br /&gt;dim the light&lt;br /&gt;appropriate kindlier&lt;br /&gt;our room is in&lt;br /&gt;love tonight&lt;br /&gt;this vision revery&lt;br /&gt;immersed entirely&lt;br /&gt;the shadows are&lt;br /&gt;suggestions of&lt;br /&gt;what we can do&lt;br /&gt;disrobe the candle&lt;br /&gt;of it's low light&lt;br /&gt;appropriate thoughts&lt;br /&gt;are not allowed tonight&lt;br /&gt;legal sex has a right\&lt;br /&gt;the age is clear&lt;br /&gt;the meat to touch&lt;br /&gt;the shadow flesh&lt;br /&gt;of the fuck&lt;br /&gt;is cast into the light&lt;br /&gt;come come&lt;br /&gt;you kindlier of love&lt;br /&gt;you crackle dark&lt;br /&gt;you vision of&lt;br /&gt;the poet';s thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8291533209652956745?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8291533209652956745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8291533209652956745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8291533209652956745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8291533209652956745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/light-dim-candle_20.html' title='light the dim candle'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4340145618188222886</id><published>2011-12-20T19:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:45:58.230-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Surrounding Center</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the years of years&lt;br /&gt;the circumstances&lt;br /&gt;remembered&lt;br /&gt;the so many feelings&lt;br /&gt;surrounding our love&lt;br /&gt;just because the just&lt;br /&gt;is right to sex&lt;br /&gt;the dark people's night&lt;br /&gt;and dispel his sorrows&lt;br /&gt;out of so many men&lt;br /&gt;I walk where the years&lt;br /&gt;have created my fears&lt;br /&gt;this house did doubt&lt;br /&gt;this neighborhoods&lt;br /&gt;within me this&lt;br /&gt;which I have lost&lt;br /&gt;my main man&lt;br /&gt;to his dreams.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4340145618188222886?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4340145618188222886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4340145618188222886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4340145618188222886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4340145618188222886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/surrounding-center_20.html' title='The Surrounding Center'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-62892587683695218</id><published>2011-12-20T19:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:44:37.900-08:00</updated><title type='text'>his soul</title><content type='html'>his soul&lt;br /&gt;yes that part&lt;br /&gt;of him his&lt;br /&gt;pains burns&lt;br /&gt;to let me in&lt;br /&gt;his truth&lt;br /&gt;yes that part&lt;br /&gt;ambitious and&lt;br /&gt;much an able&lt;br /&gt;snatched dexterity&lt;br /&gt;naught his hands&lt;br /&gt;at my wast&lt;br /&gt;my long deep breath&lt;br /&gt;impertinent with sweat&lt;br /&gt;his prolonged prologue&lt;br /&gt;his tears laments&lt;br /&gt;in a dizzy state&lt;br /&gt;with rivulets&lt;br /&gt;of rain and&lt;br /&gt;blood and drops&lt;br /&gt;of pre cum his waves&lt;br /&gt;just because the&lt;br /&gt;revolution of our love&lt;br /&gt;was forestalled in the wait&lt;br /&gt;that on me my&lt;br /&gt;ancestors laid&lt;br /&gt;his cleaving marrow&lt;br /&gt;yes this is confusing&lt;br /&gt;it is what he does to me&lt;br /&gt;when he do me done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-62892587683695218?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/62892587683695218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=62892587683695218' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/62892587683695218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/62892587683695218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/his-soul_20.html' title='his soul'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4213033811929210205</id><published>2011-12-20T19:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:43:38.459-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I will ayuga your skin</title><content type='html'>I will ayuga your skin&lt;br /&gt;my connotation of prostitution&lt;br /&gt;as b-boy bubble butt&lt;br /&gt;getting fucked&lt;br /&gt;B/D top but your&lt;br /&gt;baguette a baby Crockett....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4213033811929210205?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4213033811929210205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4213033811929210205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4213033811929210205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4213033811929210205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-will-ayuga-your-skin.html' title='I will ayuga your skin'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5509853917075381534</id><published>2011-12-20T19:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T18:37:35.743-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Doorways leads</title><content type='html'>Doorways leads&lt;br /&gt;if you are led&lt;br /&gt;southern crosses&lt;br /&gt;tattooed on the&lt;br /&gt;fore head&lt;br /&gt;crystal charms&lt;br /&gt;and combat booths&lt;br /&gt;residue of lust&lt;br /&gt;cicatrix and crucifix&lt;br /&gt;which holds you in bondage&lt;br /&gt;sexual choices of&lt;br /&gt;a proud black man&lt;br /&gt;flaunting his lust&lt;br /&gt;for affections&lt;br /&gt;crescent moon follow&lt;br /&gt;him home dangling&lt;br /&gt;dreams of those now gone&lt;br /&gt;the path way is pitted with rocks&lt;br /&gt;with negativity that&lt;br /&gt;will ware you down&lt;br /&gt;and pawn your crown&lt;br /&gt;of thorns, life is&lt;br /&gt;worth more then&lt;br /&gt;a pair of sneakers&lt;br /&gt;with someones else brand name&lt;br /&gt;life is worth the price&lt;br /&gt;of a condom to keep you sane&lt;br /&gt;thee war of Kuwaiti is&lt;br /&gt;the whites man's game&lt;br /&gt;and blacks the same&lt;br /&gt;the endless dunes is&lt;br /&gt;a re frame&lt;br /&gt;let me smooth yours&lt;br /&gt;snappy pubic hairs&lt;br /&gt;I use no lye, let me&lt;br /&gt;unbounded your desires&lt;br /&gt;I go down on my knees&lt;br /&gt;it tents and cities&lt;br /&gt;and feed you reserve-unit&lt;br /&gt;rations when we choke&lt;br /&gt;because of the smoke&lt;br /&gt;bellowing from lit&lt;br /&gt;to light oil wells&lt;br /&gt;soldiers are leaders&lt;br /&gt;soldiers are led&lt;br /&gt;soldiers bed the desert&lt;br /&gt;and other soldier men&lt;br /&gt;soldier also gives head.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5509853917075381534?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5509853917075381534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5509853917075381534' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5509853917075381534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5509853917075381534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/doorways-leads_20.html' title='Doorways leads'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4657976779194629078</id><published>2011-12-20T19:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:41:42.303-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I keep many things</title><content type='html'>I keep many things&lt;br /&gt;names of men&lt;br /&gt;the list is long&lt;br /&gt;of them now gone&lt;br /&gt;I keep my hurts&lt;br /&gt;my overgrown scars to&lt;br /&gt;smooth the stones&lt;br /&gt;these gray grave markers&lt;br /&gt;standing strong when their&lt;br /&gt;bares are now bones&lt;br /&gt;the marker of graves&lt;br /&gt;of black men this disease took them&lt;br /&gt;they did not want to go&lt;br /&gt;the feeble attempt of names&lt;br /&gt;sawed into quits&lt;br /&gt;that covers no one&lt;br /&gt;I have no needles&lt;br /&gt;I have no threads&lt;br /&gt;only patch works now&lt;br /&gt;memories of them now dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4657976779194629078?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4657976779194629078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4657976779194629078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4657976779194629078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4657976779194629078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-keep-many-things_20.html' title='I keep many things'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6746988417871612641</id><published>2011-12-20T19:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:40:53.651-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AIDs 30 Years on</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 year it have been&lt;br /&gt;since the first one&lt;br /&gt;marked on the head&lt;br /&gt;of his dick a St. Louis teenager&lt;br /&gt;died in 1969&lt;br /&gt;30 years I carry&lt;br /&gt;a touch whose flame&lt;br /&gt;fought the winds&lt;br /&gt;whose light flickers&lt;br /&gt;to light my way&lt;br /&gt;whose light dims&lt;br /&gt;at the close of day&lt;br /&gt;30 years packed tight&lt;br /&gt;with black men like&lt;br /&gt;some stinking cargo hold&lt;br /&gt;of rotting flesh&lt;br /&gt;I weep not for&lt;br /&gt;them gone for they&lt;br /&gt;have gone home&lt;br /&gt;but for my young brothers&lt;br /&gt;who because of their&lt;br /&gt;sexual needs reject&lt;br /&gt;the rubber for naked skin&lt;br /&gt;and allow Aids in&lt;br /&gt;brothers safe guard&lt;br /&gt;yourselves it ain’t all that&lt;br /&gt;protect yourselves against&lt;br /&gt;the treat that will eat&lt;br /&gt;away all your flesh&lt;br /&gt;I will not leave you along&lt;br /&gt;to sex with only yourself&lt;br /&gt;30 years of death&lt;br /&gt;and nature is not to blame&lt;br /&gt;all things have a right&lt;br /&gt;to life all things even&lt;br /&gt;this disease that takes away life&lt;br /&gt;it is you who must protect&lt;br /&gt;your sexual lovers in the night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6746988417871612641?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6746988417871612641/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6746988417871612641' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6746988417871612641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6746988417871612641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/aids-30-years-on_20.html' title='AIDs 30 Years on'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4048458531440285938</id><published>2011-12-20T19:37:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:37:51.758-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The window is sitting</title><content type='html'>The window is sitting&lt;br /&gt;on a ledge dreaming&lt;br /&gt;of the junkies who&lt;br /&gt;ware stocking on their knuckles&lt;br /&gt;the man with blue blood&lt;br /&gt;is made up of grief&lt;br /&gt;and his eyes are&lt;br /&gt;the color of homicide&lt;br /&gt;his tongue is an entrapment&lt;br /&gt;his blood is drunk&lt;br /&gt;on male love and&lt;br /&gt;his smile searches&lt;br /&gt;the sour needles&lt;br /&gt;struck in the veins&lt;br /&gt;of a hanging hung&lt;br /&gt;on his flashbacks&lt;br /&gt;memories are never&lt;br /&gt;as innocent as graveyards&lt;br /&gt;or the drug of sweet cum&lt;br /&gt;that some men drink&lt;br /&gt;like booze.&lt;br /&gt;To soon he will monkey up&lt;br /&gt;to his neglect and his&lt;br /&gt;declared space on the corner&lt;br /&gt;that he keeps beside all of&lt;br /&gt;his indifference&lt;br /&gt;the ice of his eyes&lt;br /&gt;sees the lost regret&lt;br /&gt;wallowing down the&lt;br /&gt;let down of the streets&lt;br /&gt;his ceaseless drugs&lt;br /&gt;declare that spiting out&lt;br /&gt;the blood from its sucker&lt;br /&gt;punch will be practicing&lt;br /&gt;color in the dark&lt;br /&gt;there is a lump of the&lt;br /&gt;real dream in his heart&lt;br /&gt;there is a stolen bed&lt;br /&gt;in his ways when&lt;br /&gt;the night is as cheat&lt;br /&gt;as lost prayers used&lt;br /&gt;to introduce him to his God&lt;br /&gt;who is pissing out&lt;br /&gt;salvation that bruise&lt;br /&gt;the skin of a dark corner&lt;br /&gt;in paradise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4048458531440285938?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4048458531440285938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4048458531440285938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4048458531440285938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4048458531440285938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/window-is-sitting_20.html' title='The window is sitting'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7183423538330896569</id><published>2011-12-20T19:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:36:42.847-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O night O day</title><content type='html'>O night O day&lt;br /&gt;O once again&lt;br /&gt;O stay I am&lt;br /&gt;the sucker thief&lt;br /&gt;I steal fore skins&lt;br /&gt;to ware as a ring&lt;br /&gt;O rawdog queer&lt;br /&gt;my tears are prayers&lt;br /&gt;against your nightmares&lt;br /&gt;O desperation of breathing&lt;br /&gt;my home breath&lt;br /&gt;O spent cares of my comfort&lt;br /&gt;that rest on my warm breast&lt;br /&gt;O evicted love&lt;br /&gt;O landlord of men cum&lt;br /&gt;I holler I scream&lt;br /&gt;and the two-bit whores&lt;br /&gt;came to save me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7183423538330896569?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7183423538330896569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7183423538330896569' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7183423538330896569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7183423538330896569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/o-night-o-day_20.html' title='O night O day'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6429451337895461317</id><published>2011-12-20T19:35:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:35:39.858-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I rolled down</title><content type='html'>I rolled down&lt;br /&gt;my tongue so that&lt;br /&gt;he could take&lt;br /&gt;a strode and&lt;br /&gt;my nameless owning&lt;br /&gt;the carders of my ears&lt;br /&gt;bullets was&lt;br /&gt;shot from my&lt;br /&gt;nostrils they&lt;br /&gt;ripped the image&lt;br /&gt;of the fair skinned Christ&lt;br /&gt;who offed me&lt;br /&gt;a stagger of tabernacles&lt;br /&gt;the lines in my face&lt;br /&gt;was tasks that&lt;br /&gt;I never got around to&lt;br /&gt;offer me water to&lt;br /&gt;shade my love of youngsters&lt;br /&gt;offer me me relief&lt;br /&gt;from the fire&lt;br /&gt;of your touch&lt;br /&gt;when grief&lt;br /&gt;stalks me pass a&lt;br /&gt;nameless rolls of Negroes&lt;br /&gt;digging out&lt;br /&gt;the eyes of&lt;br /&gt;white soldiers&lt;br /&gt;who killed the&lt;br /&gt;last meaning&lt;br /&gt;of being free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6429451337895461317?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6429451337895461317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6429451337895461317' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6429451337895461317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6429451337895461317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-rolled-down_20.html' title='I rolled down'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3337509841076612716</id><published>2011-12-20T16:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T16:55:47.862-08:00</updated><title type='text'>You who renounce</title><content type='html'>You who renounce&lt;br /&gt;my love of black men&lt;br /&gt;just because the Bible&lt;br /&gt;it is said tells you so&lt;br /&gt;do not lay with men&lt;br /&gt;as you do with women&lt;br /&gt;all you offer is fault chatter&lt;br /&gt;self-centered is your move&lt;br /&gt;so let me school&lt;br /&gt;God is a lover&lt;br /&gt;and bisexual to boot&lt;br /&gt;your prudery is&lt;br /&gt;all ridiculous&lt;br /&gt;all hateful&lt;br /&gt;most ungodly&lt;br /&gt;and rise not even&lt;br /&gt;to the childishness&lt;br /&gt;of children&lt;br /&gt;most certainly you&lt;br /&gt;prefer the narrow view&lt;br /&gt;the narrow road to truth&lt;br /&gt;laid by your priest or preacher&lt;br /&gt;a lair by any other name lies still&lt;br /&gt;and what of Jesus in his efforts&lt;br /&gt;sought to heal, sought to invite in&lt;br /&gt;the acts of righteous men&lt;br /&gt;but now who tells us&lt;br /&gt;what is right against our wrongs&lt;br /&gt;so is this that he himself&lt;br /&gt;traveled his land with only men&lt;br /&gt;till Mary caught his eye&lt;br /&gt;still he loved one above the others&lt;br /&gt;tell me if I lie&lt;br /&gt;now with so much under the bridge&lt;br /&gt;so much time have come and gone&lt;br /&gt;that what once was writ for only men&lt;br /&gt;can not stand true to modern women&lt;br /&gt; so much time is laid waste &lt;br /&gt;we do not know what filled his mouth&lt;br /&gt;it seems he could not or wish not to write&lt;br /&gt;we do not know what filled his mouth&lt;br /&gt;what sex passed his tongue&lt;br /&gt;the church is a single thought&lt;br /&gt;that even sexually the priest&lt;br /&gt;can not live up to.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3337509841076612716?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3337509841076612716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3337509841076612716' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3337509841076612716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3337509841076612716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/you-who-renounce.html' title='You who renounce'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8706838852961199811</id><published>2011-12-15T19:33:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T19:33:50.925-08:00</updated><title type='text'>up date 12-15-2011</title><content type='html'>05-27-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heat of the sun&lt;br /&gt;inundate me&lt;br /&gt;with warm wind&lt;br /&gt;just fresh across&lt;br /&gt;his tongue&lt;br /&gt;our love is only&lt;br /&gt;recognized by&lt;br /&gt;our history&lt;br /&gt;the breeders came&lt;br /&gt;and murdered it&lt;br /&gt;in its sleep when&lt;br /&gt;we was not on guard&lt;br /&gt;my mouth disdain language&lt;br /&gt;my hands are&lt;br /&gt;re[eating idiocies&lt;br /&gt;used to touch&lt;br /&gt;the memories left&lt;br /&gt;on the kitchen table&lt;br /&gt;like old newspapers&lt;br /&gt;that have seen&lt;br /&gt;better winds blowing&lt;br /&gt;the streets, yes&lt;br /&gt;the real reality&lt;br /&gt;of being gay is&lt;br /&gt;worth all the money&lt;br /&gt;in my dreams&lt;br /&gt;that I keep tugged&lt;br /&gt;between my spendings&lt;br /&gt;and my hollering at&lt;br /&gt;the nobody of&lt;br /&gt;my desires.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;05-28-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no&lt;br /&gt;cheat queers&lt;br /&gt;no kindness&lt;br /&gt;that is hollering&lt;br /&gt;prayers at the&lt;br /&gt;king of hearts&lt;br /&gt;there is no&lt;br /&gt;breath that can&lt;br /&gt;not dance&lt;br /&gt;can not scream like a&lt;br /&gt;whore's prayer&lt;br /&gt;my money is my lawyer&lt;br /&gt;my two-bit is listening&lt;br /&gt;to the tic of my heart&lt;br /&gt;that weeps its humiliation&lt;br /&gt;like standing on the corner&lt;br /&gt;waiting for a John who&lt;br /&gt;I can sweat into the throat&lt;br /&gt;of traffic&lt;br /&gt;there is a bed of speed&lt;br /&gt;that is my thief my rancid reality&lt;br /&gt;that creeps against the sucking&lt;br /&gt;of me and my night&lt;br /&gt; always nasty always&lt;br /&gt;full of silk panties&lt;br /&gt;worn under my breath&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have spent&lt;br /&gt;my life suddenly&lt;br /&gt;whoring the streets&lt;br /&gt;with a gentle hello&lt;br /&gt;and the ghetto knows&lt;br /&gt;my name and the&lt;br /&gt;city I have tamed&lt;br /&gt;and the game is rigged&lt;br /&gt;and my throat&lt;br /&gt;is full of tears&lt;br /&gt;and my bones&lt;br /&gt;are hollow but strong&lt;br /&gt;and my dreams&lt;br /&gt;are my landlord&lt;br /&gt;I traffic in sex&lt;br /&gt;real sex not&lt;br /&gt;that two bit&lt;br /&gt;simulation kind&lt;br /&gt;seen on TV between&lt;br /&gt;breeders who would&lt;br /&gt;murder me because I&lt;br /&gt;am the way of all flesh&lt;br /&gt;my sex is always alive&lt;br /&gt;even when introduced&lt;br /&gt;to Gods and angel a like&lt;br /&gt;like a humiliation&lt;br /&gt;of lost nights&lt;br /&gt;and I yes I this me&lt;br /&gt;this bone bruising&lt;br /&gt;queen, me, my own&lt;br /&gt;queerness that&lt;br /&gt;will kill all of your&lt;br /&gt;desperation and&lt;br /&gt;replace then with kindness&lt;br /&gt;I am feared because&lt;br /&gt;the panties I ware&lt;br /&gt;are not made of silk&lt;br /&gt;with a lady's lace&lt;br /&gt;but make of little&lt;br /&gt;games played by&lt;br /&gt;boys in the tenement&lt;br /&gt;buildings ready to fall&lt;br /&gt;I am the midnight call&lt;br /&gt;to come quick&lt;br /&gt;as quick as you&lt;br /&gt;pop a nut when&lt;br /&gt;I tongue your slit&lt;br /&gt;-=&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My poems and My High Heels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ceaseless needles&lt;br /&gt;of my pens poem out&lt;br /&gt;poems like I am a&lt;br /&gt;junky or a sour blue&lt;br /&gt;the polices are&lt;br /&gt;officers on my back&lt;br /&gt;but will not take&lt;br /&gt;me in if I come&lt;br /&gt;in their hats&lt;br /&gt;I am a practicing&lt;br /&gt;homosexual&lt;br /&gt;in living color&lt;br /&gt;of all the colors&lt;br /&gt;of man I stand&lt;br /&gt;I declare my space&lt;br /&gt;in the working of things&lt;br /&gt;in me many men&lt;br /&gt;believe that I&lt;br /&gt;can save them&lt;br /&gt;because I am not&lt;br /&gt;embarrassed by&lt;br /&gt;taping down my tool&lt;br /&gt;to school the men&lt;br /&gt;who hide in bushes&lt;br /&gt;and go the next&lt;br /&gt;morning having&lt;br /&gt;hung their dicks&lt;br /&gt;on the tip of my tongue&lt;br /&gt;I am the spirit&lt;br /&gt;in red dress&lt;br /&gt;and my high heels&lt;br /&gt;are a weapon&lt;br /&gt;O roll your shoulders&lt;br /&gt;into my heart you&lt;br /&gt;know that I will&lt;br /&gt;close the door&lt;br /&gt;when the wreckage&lt;br /&gt;of yesterday is&lt;br /&gt;a still birth&lt;br /&gt;full of moonlight.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next morning&lt;br /&gt;was barely hung&lt;br /&gt;on the full moonlight&lt;br /&gt;the color of cum&lt;br /&gt;the sky was sobbing&lt;br /&gt;dead rain and the&lt;br /&gt;flowers have all gone insane&lt;br /&gt;there was a devastating&lt;br /&gt;smile in the refection&lt;br /&gt;of the rainbow and a&lt;br /&gt;drunk hurt that cursed&lt;br /&gt;the birth of strange&lt;br /&gt;spirits trying to&lt;br /&gt;touch the sky&lt;br /&gt;O why do I suppose&lt;br /&gt;that memories never&lt;br /&gt;grow old their&lt;br /&gt;indifference full&lt;br /&gt;of the wonder of any&lt;br /&gt;overgrown graveyards&lt;br /&gt;they say that the junkies&lt;br /&gt;who stands on the ledge&lt;br /&gt;neglected the entrapment&lt;br /&gt;well breed in the head&lt;br /&gt;they say that the&lt;br /&gt;ancestors are all dead&lt;br /&gt;when no one call upon them&lt;br /&gt;dead in the garden of my heart&lt;br /&gt;and I disrespected&lt;br /&gt;the funeral decorated&lt;br /&gt;with nightmares&lt;br /&gt;they say my face&lt;br /&gt;is a hard murder&lt;br /&gt;of romance that&lt;br /&gt;recite the image&lt;br /&gt;in the mirror&lt;br /&gt;but it was not me&lt;br /&gt;who tore apart&lt;br /&gt;your willingness to be free&lt;br /&gt;it was not me&lt;br /&gt;who screamed&lt;br /&gt;at the summer&lt;br /&gt;over dressed as some&lt;br /&gt;queen on the midnight&lt;br /&gt;corner where men&lt;br /&gt;cruse the dead semen&lt;br /&gt;tainted with a deadly load&lt;br /&gt;they say that ex-lovers&lt;br /&gt;are landscapes waiting&lt;br /&gt;to be pruned&lt;br /&gt;from my memories&lt;br /&gt;but it was not me&lt;br /&gt;who painted over&lt;br /&gt;all of your windows&lt;br /&gt;so that none could see&lt;br /&gt;the awakening of&lt;br /&gt;your sexual needs&lt;br /&gt;no it was not me&lt;br /&gt;who lost my clarity&lt;br /&gt;in a bucket of malevolent&lt;br /&gt;thrown like stones&lt;br /&gt;skipping across&lt;br /&gt;your soul only to&lt;br /&gt;be blown in the hugs&lt;br /&gt;of willing arms.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The anguish&lt;br /&gt;of my fantasies&lt;br /&gt;are a presumption&lt;br /&gt;without credentials&lt;br /&gt;and my intellect&lt;br /&gt;is ignored by&lt;br /&gt;the tiresome&lt;br /&gt;solicitous needs&lt;br /&gt;to be exploited&lt;br /&gt;sexually I am&lt;br /&gt;a trick tucked&lt;br /&gt;between my desires&lt;br /&gt;and my aberrations&lt;br /&gt;I am blue black&lt;br /&gt;I am invisible&lt;br /&gt;to my kind who&lt;br /&gt;finds me tiresome&lt;br /&gt;because I am divine&lt;br /&gt;and holds their&lt;br /&gt;\futures between my legs&lt;br /&gt;the night desire me&lt;br /&gt;the night is my friend&lt;br /&gt;it hides me within.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;05-29-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some men go for light skin&lt;br /&gt;some the same for that straight long hair&lt;br /&gt;some for big dicks&lt;br /&gt;some a cute young thing to ware&lt;br /&gt;some men are player player&lt;br /&gt;get you to give them anything&lt;br /&gt;but these men will not be tied down&lt;br /&gt;with a wedding ring&lt;br /&gt;some men are as dark as dirt&lt;br /&gt;and will give it to you at their homes&lt;br /&gt;cook you dinner and pay your phone&lt;br /&gt;so glad to belong&lt;br /&gt;some men play games like that&lt;br /&gt;they will steal even your blackness&lt;br /&gt;then blame the whole damn thing on you&lt;br /&gt;some men are ever so smooth&lt;br /&gt;to woo you with a kiss&lt;br /&gt;some men will hit&lt;br /&gt;some men drink to forget&lt;br /&gt;that they are in love with you&lt;br /&gt;some men will hit you up for gas&lt;br /&gt;every other day &lt;br /&gt;some men got a little bit on the side&lt;br /&gt;yell some men  be that way&lt;br /&gt;some men will take you to school&lt;br /&gt;some men suffer no fools&lt;br /&gt;some men are to good to be true&lt;br /&gt;and spend all of their little money on you&lt;br /&gt;and they say a good man is hard to find&lt;br /&gt;I do believe that some men are blind&lt;br /&gt;seeking the flesh instead of the mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;06-12-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  wind chased&lt;br /&gt;him into my arms&lt;br /&gt;when I saw his&lt;br /&gt;reflection in my soup.&lt;br /&gt;Suffering from the fever&lt;br /&gt;of love he grinned&lt;br /&gt;at my needs and wants&lt;br /&gt;Patrick the Scotch drinker&lt;br /&gt;Patrick who Davided&lt;br /&gt;me into becoming Dravidian&lt;br /&gt;He was all about&lt;br /&gt;the moments the here and now&lt;br /&gt;like some black angel&lt;br /&gt;who added water&lt;br /&gt;to his Scotch and&lt;br /&gt;spoke of Baldwin as&lt;br /&gt;the savor who walked&lt;br /&gt;on the water of our&lt;br /&gt;consciousness to be complete.&lt;br /&gt;I saw him grow&lt;br /&gt;soft on me, his&lt;br /&gt;form of blushes&lt;br /&gt;his black-ash colored&lt;br /&gt;skin that he was&lt;br /&gt;not a shade to hide in&lt;br /&gt;to use as a shadow.&lt;br /&gt;He was touched&lt;br /&gt;by some meditation,&lt;br /&gt;some fire, some&lt;br /&gt;deep waters&lt;br /&gt;something he&lt;br /&gt;could be a metal&lt;br /&gt;blossom, a mirror&lt;br /&gt;a rainbow with&lt;br /&gt;tattered edges.&lt;br /&gt;He was a dark word&lt;br /&gt;a shoot black fired&lt;br /&gt;across the line&lt;br /&gt;of our enemies.&lt;br /&gt;It was plain to see&lt;br /&gt;that he was&lt;br /&gt;my axis, my atom&lt;br /&gt;in need, many&lt;br /&gt;times I climbed&lt;br /&gt;his spirit without fear&lt;br /&gt;of falling&lt;br /&gt;because I had rested&lt;br /&gt;within the edge&lt;br /&gt;of his flesh.&lt;br /&gt;To fuck is not to love&lt;br /&gt;but the love of the fuck&lt;br /&gt;is caused by the woodiness&lt;br /&gt;of his pubis hairs&lt;br /&gt;the darkest part of him.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Openly I am me&lt;br /&gt;against all banishment&lt;br /&gt;that my people &lt;br /&gt;throw at me.&lt;br /&gt;The black serpent runs&lt;br /&gt;the church. The apple&lt;br /&gt;is rotting on the altar&lt;br /&gt;the terror is the truth&lt;br /&gt;that God have a sex&lt;br /&gt;no one or the many&lt;br /&gt;more then two.&lt;br /&gt;The unfettered morning&lt;br /&gt;will not wait till&lt;br /&gt;they see our enchantment,&lt;br /&gt;our blood of unites&lt;br /&gt;and skin que mon amour&lt;br /&gt;The exiled waits&lt;br /&gt;in his fight that&lt;br /&gt;right will be&lt;br /&gt;seen as right&lt;br /&gt;and de fur serpent&lt;br /&gt;stains du jour&lt;br /&gt;extrême taunt of skin&lt;br /&gt;we fight that fight&lt;br /&gt;will be seen as right&lt;br /&gt;even our own&lt;br /&gt;of God given deceitful&lt;br /&gt;the old moon is&lt;br /&gt;our side it have&lt;br /&gt;seen it all, we are&lt;br /&gt;no stolen light, we are&lt;br /&gt;bright in our darkness&lt;br /&gt;we are troubling the waters&lt;br /&gt;we are your&lt;br /&gt;breath's blush your &lt;br /&gt;sisters and brothers&lt;br /&gt;in the fight that&lt;br /&gt;true love will be&lt;br /&gt;seen as worth fighting for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;06-18-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look at&lt;br /&gt;a Henry Fuseli or&lt;br /&gt; William Blake painting&lt;br /&gt;of their white women&lt;br /&gt;you will see that once white men&lt;br /&gt;loved their women fleshy with a kiss&lt;br /&gt;of fat but modern whites men have&lt;br /&gt;de-evolve from that now a days they&lt;br /&gt;like them bone thin once while walking&lt;br /&gt;down the 16 st. mall behind a group&lt;br /&gt;of white women a 20 to 30 years I said&lt;br /&gt;I just can't understand how you can&lt;br /&gt;have sex with that kind&lt;br /&gt;I just can't wrap my mind why&lt;br /&gt;they are so thin so narrow if you&lt;br /&gt;view them from the side they are&lt;br /&gt;hardly there at all&lt;br /&gt;even if you strange your eyes&lt;br /&gt;black men like their women both black&lt;br /&gt;and white with a  bit&lt;br /&gt;of meat solid in their stance&lt;br /&gt;on their feet hip bearing women&lt;br /&gt;to birth their child&lt;br /&gt;while white men like&lt;br /&gt;them thin not thee at all&lt;br /&gt;I like my white men with a bit&lt;br /&gt;of fat but my black men&lt;br /&gt;any way they come&lt;br /&gt;as long as they are mentally strong&lt;br /&gt;in some African cultures when a&lt;br /&gt;woman or girl is to wed the&lt;br /&gt;older women take&lt;br /&gt;her into a hut or house&lt;br /&gt;for a month and&lt;br /&gt;make sure that she is well feed the &lt;br /&gt;need is to fatten her up&lt;br /&gt;for her man and in time&lt;br /&gt;she walk from it&lt;br /&gt;transformed down&lt;br /&gt;to her big bones cuss for the puss&lt;br /&gt;as men are apt to say so if you&lt;br /&gt;see a black man with&lt;br /&gt;his white women think not that he&lt;br /&gt;is wearing her as&lt;br /&gt;some white badge trophy&lt;br /&gt;but that in her fat and his dark skin&lt;br /&gt;there is something ancient there it is&lt;br /&gt;true that I do not understand&lt;br /&gt;white men even tho some are&lt;br /&gt;my friend there are ways&lt;br /&gt;that he have that puzzle&lt;br /&gt;me to no end I ask myself&lt;br /&gt;what kinda man wish to&lt;br /&gt;starve his women  to bone and skin&lt;br /&gt;that she feel that she must&lt;br /&gt;regurgitate to fit into the latest style&lt;br /&gt;designed by men for the what he like&lt;br /&gt;before he call her his own&lt;br /&gt;white men like to own this is true&lt;br /&gt;be it woman’s flesh or me or you.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;06-23-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once was fitted&lt;br /&gt;by what I wore&lt;br /&gt;my booths shinning&lt;br /&gt;my rank two fingers deep&lt;br /&gt;I met my lover in the Army&lt;br /&gt;where all enlisted are&lt;br /&gt;brothers in the cause&lt;br /&gt;don't ask don't tell&lt;br /&gt;a secret we could not&lt;br /&gt;afford I would&lt;br /&gt;have given my life&lt;br /&gt;if it came to that&lt;br /&gt;for the American way&lt;br /&gt;for you right to parade&lt;br /&gt;against this war&lt;br /&gt;I had my orders&lt;br /&gt;shipped from Ft Leonard Wood&lt;br /&gt;where I was trained to&lt;br /&gt;take a life without&lt;br /&gt;regret to numb myself&lt;br /&gt;and pull the trigger&lt;br /&gt;to hit my marksmen mark&lt;br /&gt;in AIT and morning PT&lt;br /&gt;in mess halls and platoons breast to backs&lt;br /&gt;they got mines and I their&lt;br /&gt;your left right your left right&lt;br /&gt;Johnny got your gal and gone&lt;br /&gt;sand my hair sand in my booths&lt;br /&gt;the sweaty helmet I ware, the gas&lt;br /&gt;mask the deadly air&lt;br /&gt;the fallen brothers&lt;br /&gt;the cross on the grave markers&lt;br /&gt;the tiny flags&lt;br /&gt;we report for duty&lt;br /&gt;we clean our M-16s&lt;br /&gt;we shower together&lt;br /&gt;as men, we smoke&lt;br /&gt;our grass and pop our pills&lt;br /&gt;then we sleep as not to kill&lt;br /&gt;I have known killers been one myself&lt;br /&gt;for we are soldiers&lt;br /&gt;come to rescuer men&lt;br /&gt;POW the black flag wave&lt;br /&gt;we liberate&lt;br /&gt;our brothers pinned down&lt;br /&gt;we try not to be caught&lt;br /&gt;in the cross fire but shit happens&lt;br /&gt;we save our dicks that stands&lt;br /&gt;at attention for calmer days&lt;br /&gt;we sleep in villages whenever we can&lt;br /&gt;I got me an over-nighter&lt;br /&gt;i hunt reconnaissance&lt;br /&gt;from door to door&lt;br /&gt;I seek the American's foe&lt;br /&gt;who will do me harm&lt;br /&gt;the medic is by my side&lt;br /&gt;the generals far away behind the lines&lt;br /&gt;we are the chess pieces&lt;br /&gt;that they play the board is the killing fields&lt;br /&gt;down the way&lt;br /&gt;the gunners, the armor division&lt;br /&gt;the leather necks and the grunts gun ho God given&lt;br /&gt;grace bold forgiven&lt;br /&gt;and when I have served my time&lt;br /&gt;when I am a short timer&lt;br /&gt;put my helmet over my booths&lt;br /&gt;and let them stand in line&lt;br /&gt;for rotation of being recalled to duty&lt;br /&gt;I have but one regret&lt;br /&gt;and this is it that&lt;br /&gt;only the soldiers knows the toll, the cost paid&lt;br /&gt;to blow a trumpet before the grave&lt;br /&gt;a flag on our coffin&lt;br /&gt;can not wave&lt;br /&gt;the gun salute&lt;br /&gt;only shoots holes into the sky&lt;br /&gt;we brave soldiers we who&lt;br /&gt;served and we die&lt;br /&gt;we legless, we with sightless eyes&lt;br /&gt;we who because of what&lt;br /&gt;we see in war must fight&lt;br /&gt;against out own minds&lt;br /&gt;we brave who answered the call&lt;br /&gt;we stand tall, we stand tall&lt;br /&gt;for you all.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 year it have been&lt;br /&gt;since the first one&lt;br /&gt;marked on the head&lt;br /&gt;of his dick a St. Louis teenager&lt;br /&gt;died in 1969&lt;br /&gt;30 years I carry&lt;br /&gt;a touch whose flame&lt;br /&gt;fought the winds&lt;br /&gt;whose light flickers&lt;br /&gt;to light my way&lt;br /&gt;whose light dims&lt;br /&gt;at the close of day&lt;br /&gt;30 years packed tight&lt;br /&gt;with black men like&lt;br /&gt;some stinking cargo hold&lt;br /&gt;of rotting flesh&lt;br /&gt;I weep not for&lt;br /&gt;them gone for they&lt;br /&gt;have gone home&lt;br /&gt;but for my young brothers&lt;br /&gt;who because of their&lt;br /&gt;sexual needs reject&lt;br /&gt;the rubber for naked skin&lt;br /&gt;and allow Aids in&lt;br /&gt;brothers safe guard&lt;br /&gt;yourselves it ain’t all that&lt;br /&gt;protect yourselves against&lt;br /&gt;the treat that will eat&lt;br /&gt;away all your flesh&lt;br /&gt;I will not leave you along&lt;br /&gt;to sex with only yourself&lt;br /&gt;30 years of death&lt;br /&gt;and nature is not to blame&lt;br /&gt;all things have a right&lt;br /&gt;to life all things even&lt;br /&gt;this disease that takes away life&lt;br /&gt;it is you who must protect&lt;br /&gt;your sexual lovers in the night.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I keep many things&lt;br /&gt;names of men&lt;br /&gt;the list is long&lt;br /&gt;of them now gone&lt;br /&gt;I keep my hurts&lt;br /&gt;my overgrown scars to&lt;br /&gt;smooth the stones&lt;br /&gt;these gray grave markers&lt;br /&gt;standing strong when their&lt;br /&gt;bares are now bones&lt;br /&gt;the marker of graves&lt;br /&gt;of black men this disease took them&lt;br /&gt;they did not want to go&lt;br /&gt;the feeble attempt of names&lt;br /&gt;sawed into quits&lt;br /&gt;that covers no one&lt;br /&gt;I have no needles&lt;br /&gt;I have no threads&lt;br /&gt;only patch works now&lt;br /&gt;memories of them now dead.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11-09-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wounds I ware&lt;br /&gt;are no lost of limbs&lt;br /&gt;no hands, arms&lt;br /&gt;or legs&lt;br /&gt;the wounds I bare&lt;br /&gt;is within&lt;br /&gt;beneight my skin&lt;br /&gt;the bone of my skull&lt;br /&gt;is in my mind&lt;br /&gt;that fights me&lt;br /&gt;to define what all this killing is&lt;br /&gt;I shot homogenizationwith my load&lt;br /&gt;in the throat&lt;br /&gt;he grittle out blood&lt;br /&gt;and sons unborn&lt;br /&gt;as if to slowly die&lt;br /&gt;I had to slep&lt;br /&gt;over his living body&lt;br /&gt;and approch&lt;br /&gt;the next door&lt;br /&gt;where gehide hides\my weapon is still warm&lt;br /&gt;it smokes at my side&lt;br /&gt;an idea took for the eyes&lt;br /&gt;of sargent Brooks&lt;br /&gt;a Mississippi spy&lt;br /&gt;struck of mine&lt;br /&gt;he can not see&lt;br /&gt;but he against&lt;br /&gt;his first reply&lt;br /&gt;his first wishes&lt;br /&gt;did not die&lt;br /&gt;the sand is warm&lt;br /&gt;between my thights&lt;br /&gt;and clump togetter&lt;br /&gt;around a drop of blood&lt;br /&gt;a house cat caught&lt;br /&gt;within his cry&lt;br /&gt;in our war is now&lt;br /&gt;a decent hermit&lt;br /&gt;like going&lt;br /&gt;from door to door&lt;br /&gt;within the building&lt;br /&gt;there are no shadows\&lt;br /&gt;that will not kill&lt;br /&gt;there is no heap&lt;br /&gt;of furntures&lt;br /&gt;that do not hide&lt;br /&gt;the sight of the cross hair&lt;br /&gt;centered on my heart&lt;br /&gt;that wants to do&lt;br /&gt;only good in our world&lt;br /&gt;sargent brooks is&lt;br /&gt;state side with&lt;br /&gt;the sightless eyes of his boy&lt;br /&gt;from here on&lt;br /&gt;he shall know&lt;br /&gt;only the darkness&lt;br /&gt;within and without&lt;br /&gt;all the lights&lt;br /&gt;that he shall&lt;br /&gt;now know is&lt;br /&gt;the lights of dreams&lt;br /&gt;he will see his way&lt;br /&gt;thought the boambed out&lt;br /&gt;strets and buildings with torn&lt;br /&gt;curtains and stained&lt;br /&gt;dinner clothes and fallen cilings and&lt;br /&gt;dark corners that&lt;br /&gt;hides the booby tracks&lt;br /&gt;waiting to take a life&lt;br /&gt;no one dies in their dreams&lt;br /&gt;all can see&lt;br /&gt;within our dreams&lt;br /&gt;that peace is to be fought for&lt;br /&gt;but no oil or such&lt;br /&gt;commodies things&lt;br /&gt;that have no connection to Gods&lt;br /&gt;the surge I mock&lt;br /&gt;I embrace the suck&lt;br /&gt;of the san boy&lt;br /&gt;my hillbilly armor&lt;br /&gt;is from the landfill of metal&lt;br /&gt;geardo is a fobbit&lt;br /&gt;and every groundhog&lt;br /&gt;day is the next day&lt;br /&gt;Rummy's dummies&lt;br /&gt;will be waxed&lt;br /&gt;and weekend warriors&lt;br /&gt;are single-digitimidgets&lt;br /&gt;I am no 4-f&lt;br /&gt;I would 79 any&lt;br /&gt;who thinks me so&lt;br /&gt;I coxwaire flat&lt;br /&gt;the flow of war&lt;br /&gt;I glad boy my&lt;br /&gt;fallen brothers&lt;br /&gt;I grunt and booierat&lt;br /&gt;I GSW by guns&lt;br /&gt;the honey cart and&lt;br /&gt;honey dippers the&lt;br /&gt;hooch is now&lt;br /&gt;clean save for&lt;br /&gt;the stink of death&lt;br /&gt;in the form of&lt;br /&gt;midnight fires of&lt;br /&gt;corbendenoxice die&lt;br /&gt;Jhon Wayne died out&lt;br /&gt;of the lie of&lt;br /&gt;his stage proformance&lt;br /&gt;O D is the sky&lt;br /&gt;opcon open sheaf\&lt;br /&gt;the OSS is over-niterthe fence haji stove&lt;br /&gt;soot my soul&lt;br /&gt;the jingle truck&lt;br /&gt;sings me to sleep&lt;br /&gt;I buy DVDs&lt;br /&gt;at the jingle market&lt;br /&gt;someone pinned&lt;br /&gt;a night letter&lt;br /&gt;on my soul&lt;br /&gt;and I soldier bold&lt;br /&gt;as to fuck in bed&lt;br /&gt;the red head PFC&lt;br /&gt;who gave me head&lt;br /&gt;in my dreams&lt;br /&gt;I call myself\tower head&lt;br /&gt;dune coon&lt;br /&gt;hajji camel jocket&lt;br /&gt;in Mortaritavelle&lt;br /&gt;the sweetboy is stolen&lt;br /&gt;by Ali Baba and sold&lt;br /&gt;to Chuville&lt;br /&gt;who is doing&lt;br /&gt;the death blossom&lt;br /&gt;who the Frago can&lt;br /&gt;not stand along&lt;br /&gt;the main purse&lt;br /&gt;the main boobs&lt;br /&gt;the man cave of war&lt;br /&gt;the testerong&lt;br /&gt;manny man\&lt;br /&gt;camp Bomba condo&lt;br /&gt;is inside the wire&lt;br /&gt;some of my worrors brothers&lt;br /&gt;are firding into the brown&lt;br /&gt;and the sleeping cobra&lt;br /&gt;have given me V D&lt;br /&gt;the gun bunny wont&lt;br /&gt;give up the pussy&lt;br /&gt;but he my man&lt;br /&gt;says BOLTICA&lt;br /&gt;when fumtu&lt;br /&gt;wwe was zipped in&lt;br /&gt;into the ambush&lt;br /&gt;what is your  A T F?&lt;br /&gt;We boom-boom&lt;br /&gt;we leater day coons&lt;br /&gt;we rabbits of red&lt;br /&gt;and white honkiec&lt;br /&gt;dressed to be bed&lt;br /&gt;and we see the diaper heads&lt;br /&gt;as not a man&lt;br /&gt;we men who are bold&lt;br /&gt;to wed a man&lt;br /&gt;we trading cum&lt;br /&gt;we applesauce&lt;br /&gt;we thickly spread&lt;br /&gt;and give kisses like&lt;br /&gt;giving head&lt;br /&gt;and I am balled up&lt;br /&gt;against the boney&lt;br /&gt;Ali Barbuda does&lt;br /&gt; nothingness full battle rattle&lt;br /&gt;they plant their&lt;br /&gt;bombs behind&lt;br /&gt;the burred blues canoe&lt;br /&gt;and sail you off&lt;br /&gt;to heave heaven or hell&lt;br /&gt;the bohic is not sweet&lt;br /&gt;in camp ass and Christianity&lt;br /&gt;in action never wore&lt;br /&gt;a dome of obedience and&lt;br /&gt;the dynamic truth&lt;br /&gt;is that the echelons&lt;br /&gt;above reality&lt;br /&gt;is all flash-blast&lt;br /&gt;don't handle my&lt;br /&gt;ghetto grip&lt;br /&gt;the idiot stick&lt;br /&gt;is warm and I&lt;br /&gt;know no mookie&lt;br /&gt;at o dark 30&lt;br /&gt;and P O Gs are&lt;br /&gt;P U C in my mind\&lt;br /&gt;I decline bogints&lt;br /&gt;I trust no T E V Ps&lt;br /&gt;and tarket peek&lt;br /&gt;the waxed bodies&lt;br /&gt;that is sweet in sweat&lt;br /&gt;and male musk&lt;br /&gt;and on my tongue&lt;br /&gt;and sweet swimmers&lt;br /&gt;of fresh cum&lt;br /&gt;are swimming for the egg&lt;br /&gt;the bodies that can yalla&lt;br /&gt;the soldier's angels&lt;br /&gt;that I have known&lt;br /&gt;the angels are&lt;br /&gt;in their graves&lt;br /&gt;the dirt soldiers&lt;br /&gt;the F O B taxi&lt;br /&gt;takes you in a circle&lt;br /&gt;the GWOTs got the guns&lt;br /&gt;the Hiji mart&lt;br /&gt;Hiji my patrol&lt;br /&gt;the K B R is kug&lt;br /&gt;the button man&lt;br /&gt;rakes it in&lt;br /&gt;the soldiers of the lord&lt;br /&gt;ace C Y A with orders&lt;br /&gt;Fred is in charge&lt;br /&gt;the barrel smells like A-Zoo&lt;br /&gt;the girl scouts are on leave&lt;br /&gt;a piece of navy cake&lt;br /&gt;is sweet in my thoughts&lt;br /&gt;leave a/s/i on the stall wall&lt;br /&gt;a still cock has&lt;br /&gt;no concious&lt;br /&gt;the transvestitve crown&lt;br /&gt;is no a word but Aaron's rod&lt;br /&gt;when we abdicate the &lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11-09-2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cosmic scale&lt;br /&gt;of our love is like&lt;br /&gt;sprigs of trellised&lt;br /&gt;blossoms smelling&lt;br /&gt;of April's pale droppings&lt;br /&gt;and pale smells&lt;br /&gt;of damp love like&lt;br /&gt;moist sex and musk&lt;br /&gt;slowly unfurling&lt;br /&gt;slowly becoming&lt;br /&gt;common place&lt;br /&gt;in our heart.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8706838852961199811?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8706838852961199811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8706838852961199811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8706838852961199811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8706838852961199811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/up-date-12-15-2011.html' title='up date 12-15-2011'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6103741267928182722</id><published>2011-12-11T17:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T17:05:17.109-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Once I pissed on the continental divide</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I pissed on the continental divide&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Once I pissed on the continental divide&lt;br /&gt; And quenched the thirst of New York and LA&lt;br /&gt; I pissed in the Mississippi it swims&lt;br /&gt; In the head of Louisianan&lt;br /&gt; I pissed in the Charles and intellectual&lt;br /&gt; Radcliffe, MIT and Harvard heads had&lt;br /&gt; Black mid-westerner comm. collage vision&lt;br /&gt; Strong and stringent&lt;br /&gt; I pissed blood the Red River&lt;br /&gt; And Color-a-do carving through the rocky&lt;br /&gt; If you are wondering, why I did such things&lt;br /&gt; Well an ancienter of my blood saw&lt;br /&gt; A struggling aisle of water&lt;br /&gt; And was so move as to piss out the Nile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Those amateur&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Those amateur&lt;br /&gt; American of the&lt;br /&gt; Salvation Army&lt;br /&gt; Of restrictions&lt;br /&gt; Against male love&lt;br /&gt; That broad board&lt;br /&gt; Broad-shoulder men&lt;br /&gt; Who people the Christian&lt;br /&gt; Church and wait on&lt;br /&gt; The second coming&lt;br /&gt; Those minute minded&lt;br /&gt; Men of forestalled&lt;br /&gt; Cum and came come&lt;br /&gt; When the deed is done&lt;br /&gt; People me with salty&lt;br /&gt; Tears kept in a jar&lt;br /&gt; Made of years kept&lt;br /&gt; Behind the sofa like&lt;br /&gt; Some dead cremated&lt;br /&gt; Grandmother&lt;br /&gt; Who was ashamed&lt;br /&gt; Of the way that I love&lt;br /&gt; Those Jim Crow brothers&lt;br /&gt; Cleaning the jungle of&lt;br /&gt; Trees and dead praying&lt;br /&gt; Insets mattering&lt;br /&gt; Their death like&lt;br /&gt; Seriously foretold&lt;br /&gt; Nuts on the rocks&lt;br /&gt; And size of sighs&lt;br /&gt; Forgot those old&lt;br /&gt; Eyes of promises&lt;br /&gt; Made to forget&lt;br /&gt; And waistline of&lt;br /&gt; The best man that&lt;br /&gt; I can get when&lt;br /&gt; The night falls&lt;br /&gt; Into desire&lt;br /&gt; And old news&lt;br /&gt; Is paddled as new&lt;br /&gt; And machines&lt;br /&gt; Of thoughts with&lt;br /&gt; Rotcy in the&lt;br /&gt; Hair of infantry&lt;br /&gt; Of West Point&lt;br /&gt; The points are&lt;br /&gt; Pinned to listen&lt;br /&gt; To something of&lt;br /&gt; Sucked by that&lt;br /&gt; Mother fucker&lt;br /&gt; Doctor Higgins&lt;br /&gt; Soft Britta of&lt;br /&gt; Hiking hair with&lt;br /&gt; Cracked hair and&lt;br /&gt; Knocking nobs&lt;br /&gt; Of kneels in the&lt;br /&gt; Tongue of Tuesday&lt;br /&gt; Morn and back&lt;br /&gt; Door boys interested&lt;br /&gt; Is rested and lets&lt;br /&gt; Not forget the amigos&lt;br /&gt; Darken then night&lt;br /&gt; Lit room of drunk&lt;br /&gt; Passion hurried&lt;br /&gt; To the feather-bed&lt;br /&gt; Where home gives&lt;br /&gt; Heads to complete&lt;br /&gt; Cocks in stained&lt;br /&gt; Underwears.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gavin gonna&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Gavin gonna&lt;br /&gt; Answer me a poem&lt;br /&gt; Boastin of how&lt;br /&gt; Good I come&lt;br /&gt; Phillip fag me&lt;br /&gt; Boastin how sweet&lt;br /&gt; I suck so sweet&lt;br /&gt; Stephen handsome&lt;br /&gt; Lad had a fag hag&lt;br /&gt; That made all&lt;br /&gt; His deals to&lt;br /&gt; Fill the gas bill&lt;br /&gt; Paul loves falsetto&lt;br /&gt; Some caught in&lt;br /&gt; His throat&lt;br /&gt; Edward ware&lt;br /&gt; His master’s yoke&lt;br /&gt; Blond like the&lt;br /&gt; Diva he be Steve&lt;br /&gt; Will never please&lt;br /&gt; Me Arnie was&lt;br /&gt; From somewhere&lt;br /&gt; Unknown he will&lt;br /&gt; Blow you for a song&lt;br /&gt; Without stripping off&lt;br /&gt; Your pants he also&lt;br /&gt; Is good with his hands&lt;br /&gt; Craig celebrate&lt;br /&gt; His 25th year&lt;br /&gt; Loving Ian&lt;br /&gt; The Jersey kid&lt;br /&gt; John writes&lt;br /&gt; Haikus and sonnets&lt;br /&gt; Of rug-haired boys&lt;br /&gt; He’s susceptible to panic&lt;br /&gt; When he comes&lt;br /&gt; Adrian wants to&lt;br /&gt; Be a Stanford wife&lt;br /&gt; To a professor&lt;br /&gt; In his own right&lt;br /&gt; Lacy is good&lt;br /&gt; For intrusion&lt;br /&gt; Into the dark&lt;br /&gt; Forest where&lt;br /&gt; Poets looses&lt;br /&gt; Themselves to&lt;br /&gt; Dead words&lt;br /&gt; Gerard stands&lt;br /&gt; Guard over his&lt;br /&gt; Loves like a lost&lt;br /&gt; Hound sniffin&lt;br /&gt; The crotch&lt;br /&gt; Jonathan got the&lt;br /&gt; Drop on little Miss&lt;br /&gt; Sunny Lou Ann&lt;br /&gt; Who really is a&lt;br /&gt; Real man’s man&lt;br /&gt; Selling his seeds and&lt;br /&gt; Cum by day and&lt;br /&gt; By night his&lt;br /&gt; Boyish ways&lt;br /&gt; Cliff got hot&lt;br /&gt; Nuts of healin&lt;br /&gt; Potion he’s&lt;br /&gt; The boy who&lt;br /&gt; Park cars&lt;br /&gt; And George&lt;br /&gt; Teaches school&lt;br /&gt; He’s inevitable&lt;br /&gt; But no one ever knew&lt;br /&gt; Vaughn and Don&lt;br /&gt; Are only friends&lt;br /&gt; With benefits&lt;br /&gt; Of gathering hands&lt;br /&gt; David who lives alone&lt;br /&gt; Is the writer of this poem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Turn around&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Turn around&lt;br /&gt; The world the&lt;br /&gt; Boys can tell&lt;br /&gt; That the sky&lt;br /&gt; Is pulled like&lt;br /&gt; Foreskin dark&lt;br /&gt; And damp with&lt;br /&gt; The boys are new&lt;br /&gt; To town and&lt;br /&gt; Pores are open&lt;br /&gt; To the erect&lt;br /&gt; Tongue of&lt;br /&gt; Manly love found&lt;br /&gt; In the morning breath&lt;br /&gt; When night crawls&lt;br /&gt; Into its shell&lt;br /&gt; It is a warm&lt;br /&gt; Thought to&lt;br /&gt; You a nervous&lt;br /&gt; Twitching of my hands&lt;br /&gt; Along goodbye said&lt;br /&gt; To the wind a color&lt;br /&gt; Of cold water and&lt;br /&gt; Cover of rain to&lt;br /&gt; Play the game&lt;br /&gt; With a pound&lt;br /&gt; Of fisted breath&lt;br /&gt; Turn around&lt;br /&gt; The lips are able&lt;br /&gt; To sing our&lt;br /&gt; Songs unafraid&lt;br /&gt; To love the ways&lt;br /&gt; That man make&lt;br /&gt; Love turns me&lt;br /&gt; Inside out and&lt;br /&gt; Come upon the&lt;br /&gt; Beachhead of hearts&lt;br /&gt; The war have died&lt;br /&gt; Of its own cause&lt;br /&gt; And in my eyes&lt;br /&gt; Are all the boys&lt;br /&gt; Who sooth the&lt;br /&gt; Like hours of substitute&lt;br /&gt; Pillows and nerve&lt;br /&gt; Endings warm&lt;br /&gt; As a bet of&lt;br /&gt; Desires given&lt;br /&gt; Yes the hour&lt;br /&gt; Of our love is&lt;br /&gt; Still erect&lt;br /&gt; With what&lt;br /&gt; Was left on&lt;br /&gt; Our lips when&lt;br /&gt; They met the&lt;br /&gt; Beginning of love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pirates of nude angels&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Pirates of nude angels&lt;br /&gt; Black as any black man&lt;br /&gt; And dirty red black men&lt;br /&gt; And high yellow black men&lt;br /&gt; And snow queen black men&lt;br /&gt; Ripe men blackass fruits&lt;br /&gt; Peaches and its juice&lt;br /&gt; And flesh between the teeth&lt;br /&gt; A scar of slavery&lt;br /&gt; A branding only seen&lt;br /&gt; By angels and lovers&lt;br /&gt; I warned you black&lt;br /&gt; Men I who patch&lt;br /&gt; You wounds like&lt;br /&gt; Whitman I&lt;br /&gt; Pharmacist your&lt;br /&gt; Needs with settian’s&lt;br /&gt; Poetry I am your&lt;br /&gt; Sexual product your&lt;br /&gt; Doctor in arms&lt;br /&gt; Keep me away from&lt;br /&gt; Children pets and Gods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;When he is too ill the mind that&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;When he is too ill the mind that&lt;br /&gt; Contain no fouler friend&lt;br /&gt; But the painful mystery&lt;br /&gt; Of choosing a mate,&lt;br /&gt; The worse to hatch&lt;br /&gt; To worst to catch&lt;br /&gt; The worst to match&lt;br /&gt; Each in an equal end.&lt;br /&gt; His power and mannered ways&lt;br /&gt; Succeeding his master’s proud&lt;br /&gt; His smile leads the crowd&lt;br /&gt; With fashion to beguile&lt;br /&gt; All the poet’s songs.&lt;br /&gt; He take hold of a company of ladies,&lt;br /&gt; Liking their delicacies&lt;br /&gt; He woe them with sincere silence&lt;br /&gt; Their hives strive to thrive&lt;br /&gt; Without deciphering the&lt;br /&gt; Thickest flower of abject pleasure.&lt;br /&gt; I met him beautifully full&lt;br /&gt; Of his pride and he struck me&lt;br /&gt; That he could be a woman&lt;br /&gt; In some other life left alone&lt;br /&gt; Against a breaking heart&lt;br /&gt; With secret longings&lt;br /&gt; Never satisfied quite happy.&lt;br /&gt; Like a lady with a lamp&lt;br /&gt; He stands in the great history of the land&lt;br /&gt; A noble type of goodness for all men&lt;br /&gt; Like a fair lily on a river floating&lt;br /&gt; Pass two frail growing of a lover’s&lt;br /&gt; Desire held in opened palm of being human.&lt;br /&gt; The distance priceless gift he gives is&lt;br /&gt; Respective thrift of man to man divine&lt;br /&gt; He has chosen to pay for bread and spilled wine.&lt;br /&gt; In life’s tempestuous hour&lt;br /&gt; By the weary way feeling imparted&lt;br /&gt; He remain justly to the present day&lt;br /&gt; Of an age’s fault giving little attention&lt;br /&gt; To the much easier to do ill for mentioned&lt;br /&gt; Toward a heart bought pass passion’s glow.&lt;br /&gt; The blissful scenes he surveyed&lt;br /&gt; To pick out the talk to long to&lt;br /&gt; Shine with wit on a rugged line&lt;br /&gt; Little that there is he suits them&lt;br /&gt; Not for food but the engineering&lt;br /&gt; Of a way ward emotion.&lt;br /&gt; He have played the actor&lt;br /&gt; With inexpressive sex&lt;br /&gt; Fitting like old shoes of an old father’s body.&lt;br /&gt; He is uncle to all in his most sweet&lt;br /&gt; Admired remorse of cold weather.&lt;br /&gt; How weak a thing is educated blood&lt;br /&gt; Not understanding its own daily pumping&lt;br /&gt; Of solitary business.&lt;br /&gt; The ladies of tomorrow are cheerful&lt;br /&gt; As daughters and sisters of an open answers&lt;br /&gt; They can not rule him with their charms&lt;br /&gt; Of accepting humor, a mistress of itself.&lt;br /&gt; Both beautiful and tucked with enjoyment&lt;br /&gt; Toward comfort’s retirement of silence.&lt;br /&gt; He wonders along while&lt;br /&gt; Winter evening like a silver arrow’s motion&lt;br /&gt; Of frozen dying weeping of a wedding garment&lt;br /&gt; Hung it the old weather of a dark closet.&lt;br /&gt; Within him wit clashes immediately.&lt;br /&gt; He is never dull by degrees or sense&lt;br /&gt; Less tiresome amount memories.&lt;br /&gt; One may say of him that there is something&lt;br /&gt; In him as a flower growing in the darkness&lt;br /&gt; Summoned smartly from a deep talk&lt;br /&gt; Divided mouth deep in a solitude&lt;br /&gt; Known by a few who welcome the punishment&lt;br /&gt; That appear from the wicked.&lt;br /&gt; The great sun goes down into a weeping&lt;br /&gt; And he comes to life as great riches&lt;br /&gt; In little land where wealth to often is&lt;br /&gt; Obedience to the eternal praises that few enjoy.&lt;br /&gt; His human virtue obey the alluring&lt;br /&gt; Silk of a night gown’s incarnation&lt;br /&gt; Of mechanical skin on the inner body of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Milky darkness men&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Milky darkness men&lt;br /&gt; Atuming my stress&lt;br /&gt; Trees color at&lt;br /&gt; Rest dinted rivers&lt;br /&gt; Flowing as some&lt;br /&gt; Great battle song&lt;br /&gt; Centre with&lt;br /&gt; Meadows level&lt;br /&gt; Almost gone&lt;br /&gt; Shaft the&lt;br /&gt; Traced wound&lt;br /&gt; That steep the&lt;br /&gt; Bush and drawn&lt;br /&gt; Lashes of sate&lt;br /&gt; The burnt food&lt;br /&gt; Is a corpse&lt;br /&gt; Controlled by&lt;br /&gt; Grey-green&lt;br /&gt; Temperateness&lt;br /&gt; Spiritual grace&lt;br /&gt; And the place&lt;br /&gt; Where thoughts&lt;br /&gt; Lay is traceless&lt;br /&gt; Sweet of all&lt;br /&gt; Its undoing&lt;br /&gt; Lost in the&lt;br /&gt; Furthest reaches&lt;br /&gt; Of a St. Louis&lt;br /&gt; Hill in the&lt;br /&gt; Shape of a&lt;br /&gt; Bloom of&lt;br /&gt; Rainbows O&lt;br /&gt; My fair black man&lt;br /&gt; Footing hold&lt;br /&gt; Short half-hour&lt;br /&gt; Of winter’s cold&lt;br /&gt; Cool as hitting&lt;br /&gt; Blossom helped&lt;br /&gt; Indoor of&lt;br /&gt; Houses quite&lt;br /&gt; And fall of&lt;br /&gt; Warmth and darkness that&lt;br /&gt; Warms the fellowship&lt;br /&gt; Of busy hands of&lt;br /&gt; Work a day men&lt;br /&gt; Mush-dreaded and&lt;br /&gt; Standing alone&lt;br /&gt; Shinning their&lt;br /&gt; Quote on their&lt;br /&gt; Tongues of&lt;br /&gt; Showers frail&lt;br /&gt; The steady watched&lt;br /&gt; For and watch the&lt;br /&gt; Swift stringy corpse&lt;br /&gt; Close-rooted in&lt;br /&gt; The ground when&lt;br /&gt; It is time to&lt;br /&gt; Bury your son&lt;br /&gt; On Cummor hill&lt;br /&gt; Full of graves and&lt;br /&gt; Again and drops of&lt;br /&gt; Cum then will&lt;br /&gt; The hornborn&lt;br /&gt; Boy bloom&lt;br /&gt; Into a man&lt;br /&gt; Of Wordsworth’s&lt;br /&gt; Grave and&lt;br /&gt; Rainbow skin&lt;br /&gt; With country lips&lt;br /&gt; Almost hip as&lt;br /&gt; Trips taken&lt;br /&gt; In an awaken&lt;br /&gt; Running toward&lt;br /&gt; Little Richard&lt;br /&gt; Playing his guitar&lt;br /&gt; Missouri beyond&lt;br /&gt; The highest spray&lt;br /&gt; Of for forgotten love&lt;br /&gt; Black music is&lt;br /&gt; Played in meadows&lt;br /&gt; Of nude boys&lt;br /&gt; Dancing on the&lt;br /&gt; Graves of&lt;br /&gt; Ashes sweet&lt;br /&gt; With trees&lt;br /&gt; And dark days&lt;br /&gt; Come to meet&lt;br /&gt; The dawning&lt;br /&gt; Of the sun&lt;br /&gt; Trace me&lt;br /&gt; Fair as some&lt;br /&gt; Color boy&lt;br /&gt; Sharper then&lt;br /&gt; The sweetness&lt;br /&gt; Of honey a&lt;br /&gt; River flows&lt;br /&gt; Through youth&lt;br /&gt; When I steep&lt;br /&gt; The shore and&lt;br /&gt; Bank by the boy&lt;br /&gt; Burred and&lt;br /&gt; Dented and&lt;br /&gt; Dark in his&lt;br /&gt; Making as to&lt;br /&gt; Fee-wed the&lt;br /&gt; Golden footed&lt;br /&gt; Land where he&lt;br /&gt; Make his bed&lt;br /&gt; Out under the&lt;br /&gt; Sun of foreign&lt;br /&gt; Boys full of&lt;br /&gt; Cum O say&lt;br /&gt; That I have won&lt;br /&gt; The last race&lt;br /&gt; Toward the&lt;br /&gt; Get-you sun&lt;br /&gt; And crown me&lt;br /&gt; With grace&lt;br /&gt; Conterfoiling&lt;br /&gt; Foiling underflighted&lt;br /&gt; Alight to disclose&lt;br /&gt; Fresh cheeksface and ass&lt;br /&gt; Smooth as said&lt;br /&gt; To aid all my&lt;br /&gt; Midnights bedded&lt;br /&gt; To days that&lt;br /&gt; Shine before&lt;br /&gt; The embrace&lt;br /&gt; Of seas my&lt;br /&gt; Watery home&lt;br /&gt; O stay long&lt;br /&gt; The true years&lt;br /&gt; And name the&lt;br /&gt; Honor that&lt;br /&gt; I give O&lt;br /&gt; Call me love&lt;br /&gt; Call me when&lt;br /&gt; The king with&lt;br /&gt; His golden crown&lt;br /&gt; From the town&lt;br /&gt; And unto him&lt;br /&gt; Be so true as&lt;br /&gt; To short his&lt;br /&gt; Fair head&lt;br /&gt; With jewels&lt;br /&gt; I am the&lt;br /&gt; King’s friend&lt;br /&gt; I am his&lt;br /&gt; High degree&lt;br /&gt; Blind folded&lt;br /&gt; By sand and&lt;br /&gt; Spunks and&lt;br /&gt; Kneeled knees&lt;br /&gt; Lowly down&lt;br /&gt; Beside the sea&lt;br /&gt; Where Ophelia drawn&lt;br /&gt; Her flowed&lt;br /&gt; Dress having&lt;br /&gt; Drunk its fill&lt;br /&gt; Pulled her by&lt;br /&gt; Its heavy load&lt;br /&gt; Deep within&lt;br /&gt; The serving man&lt;br /&gt; Call and she&lt;br /&gt; Shall speak&lt;br /&gt; Of mad Hamlet&lt;br /&gt; Price who&lt;br /&gt; Dismissed her&lt;br /&gt; Love freely&lt;br /&gt; Given as&lt;br /&gt; Wilted petals&lt;br /&gt; Of a plucked rose&lt;br /&gt; Love her&lt;br /&gt; Brother shall&lt;br /&gt; Answer the call&lt;br /&gt; When she falls&lt;br /&gt; From life’s&lt;br /&gt; Grace and be&lt;br /&gt; As wise as the dead as&lt;br /&gt; A taste of it on my lips&lt;br /&gt; I have drunk the drown&lt;br /&gt; Woman’s water and&lt;br /&gt; Tasted the dew-down grace&lt;br /&gt; Before I&lt;br /&gt; End this song&lt;br /&gt; Before I&lt;br /&gt; Make of my&lt;br /&gt; Breathe a kind&lt;br /&gt; Long regret&lt;br /&gt; Redeemed when&lt;br /&gt; Lord William&lt;br /&gt; Pray for thee&lt;br /&gt; That we may&lt;br /&gt; See the green&lt;br /&gt; Sea that keeps&lt;br /&gt; The haunt for&lt;br /&gt; Tomorrow out&lt;br /&gt; Of reach let&lt;br /&gt; Our great gold&lt;br /&gt; Bones be used&lt;br /&gt; As flutes&lt;br /&gt; For heavenly songs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I once was fitted&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once was fitted&lt;br /&gt; by what I wore&lt;br /&gt; my booths shinning&lt;br /&gt; my rank two fingers deep&lt;br /&gt; I met my lover in the Army&lt;br /&gt; where all enlisted are&lt;br /&gt; brothers in the cause&lt;br /&gt; don't ask don't tell&lt;br /&gt; a secret we could not&lt;br /&gt; afford I would&lt;br /&gt; have given my life&lt;br /&gt; if it came to that&lt;br /&gt; for the American way&lt;br /&gt; for you right to parade&lt;br /&gt; against this war&lt;br /&gt; I had my orders&lt;br /&gt; shipped from Ft Leonard Wood&lt;br /&gt; where I was trained to&lt;br /&gt; take a life without&lt;br /&gt; regret to numb myself&lt;br /&gt; and pull the trigger&lt;br /&gt; to hit my marksmen mark&lt;br /&gt; in AIT and morning PT&lt;br /&gt; in mess halls and platoons breast to backs&lt;br /&gt; they got mines and I their&lt;br /&gt; your left right your left right&lt;br /&gt; Johnny got your gal and gone&lt;br /&gt; sand my hair sand in mt booths&lt;br /&gt; the sweaty helmet I ware, the gas&lt;br /&gt; mask the deadly air&lt;br /&gt; the fallen brothers&lt;br /&gt; the cross on the grave markers&lt;br /&gt; the tiny flags&lt;br /&gt; we report for duty&lt;br /&gt; we clean our M-16s&lt;br /&gt; we shower together&lt;br /&gt; as men, we smoke&lt;br /&gt; our grass and pop our pills&lt;br /&gt; then we sleep as not to kill&lt;br /&gt; I have known killers been one myself&lt;br /&gt; for we are soldiers&lt;br /&gt; come to rescuer men&lt;br /&gt; POW the black flag wave&lt;br /&gt; we liberate&lt;br /&gt; our brothers pinned down&lt;br /&gt; we try not to be caught&lt;br /&gt; in the cross fire but shit happens&lt;br /&gt; we save our dicks that stands&lt;br /&gt; at attention fore calmer days&lt;br /&gt; we sleep in villages whenever we can&lt;br /&gt; I got me an over-nighter&lt;br /&gt; i hunt reconnaissance&lt;br /&gt; from door to door&lt;br /&gt; I seek the American's foe&lt;br /&gt; who will do me harm&lt;br /&gt; the medic is by my side&lt;br /&gt; the generals far away behind the lines&lt;br /&gt; we are the chess pieces&lt;br /&gt; that they play the board is the killing fields&lt;br /&gt; down the way&lt;br /&gt; the gunners, the armor division&lt;br /&gt; the leather necks and the grunts gun ho God given&lt;br /&gt; grace bold forgiven&lt;br /&gt; and when I have served my time&lt;br /&gt; when I am a short timer&lt;br /&gt; put my helmet over my booths&lt;br /&gt; and let them stand in line&lt;br /&gt; for rotation of being recalled to duty&lt;br /&gt; I have but one regret&lt;br /&gt; and this is it that&lt;br /&gt; only the soldiers knows the toll, the cost paid&lt;br /&gt; to blow a trumpet before the grave&lt;br /&gt; a flag on our coffin&lt;br /&gt; can not wave&lt;br /&gt; the gun salute&lt;br /&gt; only shoots holes into the sky&lt;br /&gt; we brave soldiers we who&lt;br /&gt; served and we die&lt;br /&gt; we legless, we with sightless eyes&lt;br /&gt; we who because of what&lt;br /&gt; we see in war must fight&lt;br /&gt; against out own minds&lt;br /&gt; we brave who answered the call&lt;br /&gt; we stand tall, we stand tall&lt;br /&gt; for you all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Marc Anthony &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marc Anthony &lt;br /&gt;now that Jennifer Lopez&lt;br /&gt; is in the wind I want to&lt;br /&gt; 'marry you but&lt;br /&gt; I must tell you&lt;br /&gt; of the scars of my dick,&lt;br /&gt; my foreskin&lt;br /&gt; I got it from my yobo&lt;br /&gt; who got it from a fellow soldier&lt;br /&gt; We was red bloody American's sons&lt;br /&gt; I sold liquor and cigarettes and anything&lt;br /&gt; American’s on the black market the&lt;br /&gt; Korea women in their ceremonials robes &lt;br /&gt;who worked at the PX didn't have&lt;br /&gt; to robs it was all about loosening themselves &lt;br /&gt;to the all mighty dollar they knew&lt;br /&gt; what was up at the checkout counter&lt;br /&gt; The little dark skinned boy with the Korea eyes&lt;br /&gt; outside of the main gate&lt;br /&gt; who sold clewing gum and patriots&lt;br /&gt; and could get anything that you wanted&lt;br /&gt; He was mama san's grandson&lt;br /&gt; he lived in the orphanage with the other&lt;br /&gt; displaced as discarded Eurasian child&lt;br /&gt; The boy, the dark skinned boy&lt;br /&gt; with African American blood&lt;br /&gt; the Eurasian children are red bloody chorea’s children&lt;br /&gt; with American's blood&lt;br /&gt; One night I slept in the village&lt;br /&gt; on a over-niter with Kim, my Yobo&lt;br /&gt; and a fellow soldier in the next hooch&lt;br /&gt; died of carbon monoxide&lt;br /&gt; in his sleep, took&lt;br /&gt; hold of the enternal dream&lt;br /&gt; that is death. He is only&lt;br /&gt; a red bloody American's boy&lt;br /&gt; playing with wars of men's minds.&lt;br /&gt; At the D M Z the North Korean&lt;br /&gt; put their most musical&lt;br /&gt; and taller soldiers on the front line.&lt;br /&gt; While they dug tunnels under it&lt;br /&gt; Kim the KUTSH introduced me to mama san&lt;br /&gt; she got me a 20 s0mething boy&lt;br /&gt; and we made love in my sleeping bag.&lt;br /&gt; In the tent In the morning the boy&lt;br /&gt; was gone back to the farm the Korea &lt;br /&gt;children woke me and when I came&lt;br /&gt; out in my underwear they who and odds&lt;br /&gt; to see my bare skin dark all over.&lt;br /&gt; They called me Ali Ali Washington D C.&lt;br /&gt; They rubbed me up and down then looked at their hands.&lt;br /&gt; I was out on maneuver policing the camp&lt;br /&gt; finding roaches in the back of each tents.&lt;br /&gt; We was red blooded American's boys&lt;br /&gt; One asked “You been Washington D. C.” ?&lt;br /&gt; Washington D. C., and Ali as American as&lt;br /&gt; Johnny Apple Seed as Paul Bunyan as&lt;br /&gt; Mr. green jean or the Jolly green giant&lt;br /&gt; All red blooded American's sons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The next morning&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next morning&lt;br /&gt; was barely hung&lt;br /&gt; on the full moonlight&lt;br /&gt; the color of cum&lt;br /&gt; the sky was sobbing&lt;br /&gt; dead rain and the&lt;br /&gt; flowers have all gone insane&lt;br /&gt; there was a devastating&lt;br /&gt; smile in the refection&lt;br /&gt; of the rainbow and a&lt;br /&gt; drunk hurt that cursed&lt;br /&gt; the birth of strange&lt;br /&gt; spirits trying to&lt;br /&gt; touch the sky&lt;br /&gt; O why do I suppose&lt;br /&gt; that memories never&lt;br /&gt; grow old their&lt;br /&gt; indifference full&lt;br /&gt; of the wonder of any&lt;br /&gt; overgrown graveyards&lt;br /&gt; they say that the junkies&lt;br /&gt; who stands on the ledge&lt;br /&gt; neglected the entrapment&lt;br /&gt; well breed in the head&lt;br /&gt; they say that the&lt;br /&gt; ancestors are all dead&lt;br /&gt; when no one call upon them&lt;br /&gt; dead in the garden of my heart&lt;br /&gt; and I disrespected&lt;br /&gt; the funeral decorated&lt;br /&gt; with nightmares&lt;br /&gt; they say my face&lt;br /&gt; is a hard murder&lt;br /&gt; of romance that&lt;br /&gt; recite the image&lt;br /&gt; in the mirror&lt;br /&gt; but it was not me&lt;br /&gt; who tore apart&lt;br /&gt; your willingness to be free&lt;br /&gt; it was not me&lt;br /&gt; who screamed&lt;br /&gt; at the summer&lt;br /&gt; over dressed as some&lt;br /&gt; queen on the midnight&lt;br /&gt; corner where men&lt;br /&gt; cruse the dead semen&lt;br /&gt; tainted with a deadly load&lt;br /&gt; they say that ex-lovers&lt;br /&gt; are landscapes waiting&lt;br /&gt; to be pruned&lt;br /&gt; from my memories&lt;br /&gt; but it was not me&lt;br /&gt; who painted over&lt;br /&gt; all of your windows&lt;br /&gt; so that none could see&lt;br /&gt; the awakening of&lt;br /&gt; your sexual needs&lt;br /&gt; no it was not me&lt;br /&gt; who lost my clarity&lt;br /&gt; in a bucket of malevolent&lt;br /&gt; thrown like stones&lt;br /&gt; skipping across&lt;br /&gt; your soul only to&lt;br /&gt; be blown in the hugs&lt;br /&gt; of willing arms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The wind&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wind chased&lt;br /&gt; him into my arms&lt;br /&gt; when I saw his&lt;br /&gt; reflection in my soup.&lt;br /&gt; Suffering from the fever&lt;br /&gt; of love he grinned&lt;br /&gt; at my needs and wants&lt;br /&gt; Patrick the Scotch drinker&lt;br /&gt; Patrick who Davided&lt;br /&gt; me into becoming Dravidian&lt;br /&gt; He was all about&lt;br /&gt; the moments the here and now&lt;br /&gt; like some black angel&lt;br /&gt; who added water&lt;br /&gt; to his Scotch and&lt;br /&gt; spoke of Baldwin as&lt;br /&gt; the savor who walked&lt;br /&gt; on the water of our&lt;br /&gt; consciousness to be complete.&lt;br /&gt; I saw him grow&lt;br /&gt; soft on me, his&lt;br /&gt; form of blushes&lt;br /&gt; his black-ash colored&lt;br /&gt; skin that he was&lt;br /&gt; not a shade to hide in&lt;br /&gt; to use as a shadow.&lt;br /&gt; He was touched&lt;br /&gt; by some meditation,&lt;br /&gt; some fire, some&lt;br /&gt; deep waters&lt;br /&gt; something he&lt;br /&gt; could be a metal&lt;br /&gt; blossom, a mirror&lt;br /&gt; a rainbow with&lt;br /&gt; tattered edges.&lt;br /&gt; He was a dark word&lt;br /&gt; a shoot black fired&lt;br /&gt; across the line&lt;br /&gt; of our enemies.&lt;br /&gt; It was plain to see&lt;br /&gt; that he was&lt;br /&gt; my axis, my atom&lt;br /&gt; in need, many&lt;br /&gt; times I climbed&lt;br /&gt; his spirit without fear&lt;br /&gt; of falling&lt;br /&gt; because I had rested&lt;br /&gt; within the edge&lt;br /&gt; of his flesh.&lt;br /&gt; To fuck is not to love&lt;br /&gt; but the love of the fuck&lt;br /&gt; is caused by the woodiness&lt;br /&gt; of his pubis hairs&lt;br /&gt; the darkest part of him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Many are my thoughts&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many are my thoughts&lt;br /&gt; dark my days and nights&lt;br /&gt; I am not right&lt;br /&gt; in the head&lt;br /&gt; all said I brood&lt;br /&gt; caution not to cry in public&lt;br /&gt; I sink into my body&lt;br /&gt; eyes agleam awakening&lt;br /&gt; into this love&lt;br /&gt; that rushes fluids &lt;br /&gt;into me&lt;br /&gt; I as window&lt;br /&gt; as poet that you&lt;br /&gt; can look though&lt;br /&gt; I am many meanings&lt;br /&gt; of blackness seen&lt;br /&gt; on the bus sunk&lt;br /&gt; down on the city's&lt;br /&gt; street I the greener grass&lt;br /&gt; on this side of town&lt;br /&gt; I dark drown&lt;br /&gt; hugging all darkness&lt;br /&gt; all skin color&lt;br /&gt; echoing nigh&lt;br /&gt; I conspire to&lt;br /&gt; win your heart&lt;br /&gt; only if it is&lt;br /&gt; willingly given&lt;br /&gt; I am not right&lt;br /&gt; in the head&lt;br /&gt; I think that blacks&lt;br /&gt; can save man&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Man, man, my lover man&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, man, my lover man&lt;br /&gt; let my love stain your&lt;br /&gt; nails, let my love&lt;br /&gt; cling to your skin lik it’s&lt;br /&gt; your clothing in the rain&lt;br /&gt; man, man, my lover man&lt;br /&gt; hold on firm&lt;br /&gt; let the palm of your hand&lt;br /&gt; let it touch all&lt;br /&gt; secret spots and hard work&lt;br /&gt; the hard fuck of our joints&lt;br /&gt; in a sexual lust&lt;br /&gt; man, man, my lover man&lt;br /&gt; let my love be lost in your hair&lt;br /&gt; and let it nudge in the warmth within&lt;br /&gt; and of that spot&lt;br /&gt; warm between the legs&lt;br /&gt; let it be done in our bed&lt;br /&gt; and when all is done&lt;br /&gt; and all is said&lt;br /&gt; let my love for you&lt;br /&gt; live in this poem&lt;br /&gt; as in the living head when&lt;br /&gt; I am all done and dead of flesh.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;They call me Mandingo&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They call me Mandingo&lt;br /&gt; but they know not what&lt;br /&gt; it means,&lt;br /&gt; They say you have a big Mandingo,&lt;br /&gt; between four and fourteen, I youngster&lt;br /&gt; have my genitalia&lt;br /&gt; ritually cut &lt;br /&gt;they never call&lt;br /&gt; me the smoke king&lt;br /&gt; I tame my unities&lt;br /&gt; I tip my tongue&lt;br /&gt; with pills and trill&lt;br /&gt; runs in the water&lt;br /&gt; there once was&lt;br /&gt; a time that I was told&lt;br /&gt; that I spoke white&lt;br /&gt; but I was bold to use&lt;br /&gt; my words as if I owned&lt;br /&gt; the world dictionaries&lt;br /&gt; then I heard Malindy sing&lt;br /&gt; then I lost the wedding ring&lt;br /&gt; that wedded me&lt;br /&gt; a mere boy to the black church&lt;br /&gt; a child groom because&lt;br /&gt; of the slickness of my tongue&lt;br /&gt; I fall like a leaf&lt;br /&gt; I humbling raise&lt;br /&gt; I cure the day that god&lt;br /&gt; enslaved me. I am the music&lt;br /&gt; that rants and rage&lt;br /&gt; and make white’s blood&lt;br /&gt; to dance on my grave.&lt;br /&gt; I am the scared&lt;br /&gt; fire unknown and tried&lt;br /&gt; still I my flame thrives&lt;br /&gt; with words I pile my mouth sweet&lt;br /&gt; and make you weep&lt;br /&gt; for a tease of taste&lt;br /&gt; of my peace&lt;br /&gt; word that hides my doubt&lt;br /&gt; that such a thing as me&lt;br /&gt; should know such a thing&lt;br /&gt; as what it means&lt;br /&gt; to be the likes&lt;br /&gt; of this here me&lt;br /&gt; I know no rest that I can take&lt;br /&gt; no break but that that breaks&lt;br /&gt; my black back&lt;br /&gt; even my brothers of my kind&lt;br /&gt; deride that I am able to shine&lt;br /&gt; with such a grave that God&lt;br /&gt; covers his dreaming eyes&lt;br /&gt; as not to see that he is&lt;br /&gt; heaven blind&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The moon&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The moon is&lt;br /&gt; kicking itself&lt;br /&gt; to see all the fun&lt;br /&gt; had by you and me&lt;br /&gt; still it will not give&lt;br /&gt; up its place&lt;br /&gt; it knows not that &lt;br /&gt;it waste away&lt;br /&gt; but this is a &lt;br /&gt;good thing&lt;br /&gt; the moon does &lt;br /&gt;not dream nor eat nor sleep&lt;br /&gt; \nor birth but dust&lt;br /&gt; as a son the moon&lt;br /&gt; is just because and&lt;br /&gt; nothing more then holds&lt;br /&gt; its place in the make&lt;br /&gt; of things&lt;br /&gt; it have no atmosphere,&lt;br /&gt; it have no&lt;br /&gt; rings of Rioting’s roar&lt;br /&gt; what it holds&lt;br /&gt; we do not&lt;br /&gt; fully understand&lt;br /&gt; sure we know why&lt;br /&gt; it is round and&lt;br /&gt; catches the light&lt;br /&gt; of the midnight sun&lt;br /&gt; we know that it&lt;br /&gt; is stone and dust&lt;br /&gt; and cares not&lt;br /&gt; that we place our trust&lt;br /&gt; in its sway of ocean&lt;br /&gt; and our blood&lt;br /&gt; sure we know that it&lt;br /&gt; far above and circles round&lt;br /&gt; just because gravity holds&lt;br /&gt; it in its place and sure&lt;br /&gt; everything wastes away&lt;br /&gt; but what is sure&lt;br /&gt; is subject to change&lt;br /&gt; no one can count the grains&lt;br /&gt; of rice and seeds and&lt;br /&gt; sons of weeps every sweet&lt;br /&gt; that cam and went&lt;br /&gt; without a notice by man&lt;br /&gt; and some have their Gods&lt;br /&gt; to explain what is before&lt;br /&gt; their eyes in nature’s way&lt;br /&gt; the meaning of things&lt;br /&gt; and why the flesh is weak as meat&lt;br /&gt; man will always be man&lt;br /&gt; and try to control&lt;br /&gt; what resits him&lt;br /&gt; in the custom house&lt;br /&gt; down the way&lt;br /&gt; the building is of stone&lt;br /&gt; and heavenly in the way&lt;br /&gt; its architecture sits&lt;br /&gt; on the land and&lt;br /&gt; justice is too blind&lt;br /&gt; tyo understand&lt;br /&gt; that what is just&lt;br /&gt; can fade fast like&lt;br /&gt; the stolen light&lt;br /&gt; of the moon.&lt;br /&gt; -&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Smear green dollar's nickles&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smear green dollar's nickles&lt;br /&gt; on your face&lt;br /&gt; and white the wait&lt;br /&gt; black hands that hesitates&lt;br /&gt; in their throb&lt;br /&gt; irresolution without anguish&lt;br /&gt; sweat their hate&lt;br /&gt; men tighten themselves they struggle&lt;br /&gt; the noose of God and man &lt;br /&gt;black men in the wrong&lt;br /&gt; white men hand will fail&lt;br /&gt; to be a full black man &lt;br /&gt;thousands their black bodies in butt ends&lt;br /&gt; and can spit out the juice of reason&lt;br /&gt; men who sexual pause wins the prize&lt;br /&gt; will cry the pain from my eyes&lt;br /&gt; and men strong as bulls by and by&lt;br /&gt; will loose the noose and set you free&lt;br /&gt; men with the grit off their teeth&lt;br /&gt; grind the rime and drink the juice&lt;br /&gt; of what drips down the corner&lt;br /&gt; of my lips and I piss into the wind&lt;br /&gt; to let the yellow warmth in&lt;br /&gt; and I ride the one who rode me&lt;br /&gt; and we are one in two and&lt;br /&gt; two in one of who we be&lt;br /&gt; within the skin of our sexual meat&lt;br /&gt; black men who give away their hands&lt;br /&gt; for a bit of peace can not keep&lt;br /&gt; the drops that weep themselves away&lt;br /&gt; O say can you see the red white and blue&lt;br /&gt; weaker then the green that nature gave you&lt;br /&gt; O say can you say that by the way&lt;br /&gt; a drop of rain cleans clears the make shift&lt;br /&gt; hour of our dreams&lt;br /&gt; O say can you wait till the flange flag wave&lt;br /&gt; away the dead hour of all my cares&lt;br /&gt; and I butter nobody's black man&lt;br /&gt; as my slave of comfort, I need only&lt;br /&gt; the sweet drips that drips away it's needs&lt;br /&gt; and I am not the self same me that I know&lt;br /&gt; O say can you peace away the wars&lt;br /&gt; of man's discord and dream of a time&lt;br /&gt; that once was a divine clock&lt;br /&gt; ticking away the skin of time&lt;br /&gt; O can you meet the face that you meet&lt;br /&gt; in the castle darkness of who you be&lt;br /&gt; and meet yourself on level ground&lt;br /&gt; and go round the rim of a hour&lt;br /&gt; gone insane because the day is wasting away&lt;br /&gt; O say can you heap then weep out a piece of peace of &lt;br /&gt;your time as a thing wrought from the Gods&lt;br /&gt; the last divine man born to it&lt;br /&gt; has died on the cross of time and his words&lt;br /&gt; rides in the head of many&lt;br /&gt; thought he himself wrote not a word&lt;br /&gt; so wherefore was it said that he said is&lt;br /&gt; only some other man's words changed&lt;br /&gt; to fit outside of our prescient present time&lt;br /&gt; never again born one divine with his&lt;br /&gt; love of men on the outside&lt;br /&gt; never again the dying sun runs up to you&lt;br /&gt; and kiss your face with a heat icky hickey&lt;br /&gt; ignite your desires as if a starter fire&lt;br /&gt; of flung friends casted from the watery&lt;br /&gt; surface of your eyes &lt;br /&gt;man lives the lie that he is not divine&lt;br /&gt; he is not one of the many&lt;br /&gt; that populate popularize the flesh of nature&lt;br /&gt; none is less holy then the ant&lt;br /&gt; nor less as he can't rise above the fray&lt;br /&gt; and be one known to himself&lt;br /&gt; none is less then the bee no indeed&lt;br /&gt; not you nor me or him that reads this&lt;br /&gt; I am no saint but will get my wings&lt;br /&gt; made of black bones trimmed to the T&lt;br /&gt; when I am allowed to pour out the dawn&lt;br /&gt; into your wakening throat&lt;br /&gt; between the world and me the flesh is freakishly black&lt;br /&gt; but firm and fit to kiss the empty kiss&lt;br /&gt; of the charred knee that kneed that drains me&lt;br /&gt; none take the time to pray on all four&lt;br /&gt; to be closer to his God, none opens wide&lt;br /&gt; the back door to score the seeds of God&lt;br /&gt; trust no God that is a virgin still after all these years&lt;br /&gt; and none who is not bisexual in his deeds&lt;br /&gt; for such a thing is needed to come&lt;br /&gt; to know both sides let not the women of your race&lt;br /&gt; loose her place as the mother of man&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sit here my love&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sit here my love&lt;br /&gt; and meditate&lt;br /&gt; on the art of poetry&lt;br /&gt; desire your feelings&lt;br /&gt; as merciful things&lt;br /&gt; unfulfilled is his reply&lt;br /&gt; this figure of&lt;br /&gt; middle aged love&lt;br /&gt; beauty lives in his eyes&lt;br /&gt; as fashionable things&lt;br /&gt; I 'm perceptible round&lt;br /&gt; the hours impressions&lt;br /&gt; carved into my bones&lt;br /&gt; combine the days&lt;br /&gt; with the years&lt;br /&gt; always none gone&lt;br /&gt; I comb the hair&lt;br /&gt; of my lover&lt;br /&gt; indistinct as my lost&lt;br /&gt; the lines in his face&lt;br /&gt; are lames of memories&lt;br /&gt; and time for all&lt;br /&gt; it's forward movement&lt;br /&gt; can not catch up&lt;br /&gt; with itself&lt;br /&gt; he leaves me fed&lt;br /&gt; as a new beginning&lt;br /&gt; he fulfills my&lt;br /&gt; sexual needs&lt;br /&gt; and our bed is soft&lt;br /&gt; as plucked roses&lt;br /&gt; hurrying toward&lt;br /&gt; their birth&lt;br /&gt; the rose's hips&lt;br /&gt; are furtive&lt;br /&gt; the bed is sensual&lt;br /&gt; with delight&lt;br /&gt; the separate love&lt;br /&gt; and furtive and&lt;br /&gt; holds no doubts&lt;br /&gt; in a little while&lt;br /&gt; the bed will fall&lt;br /&gt; out of it's betrayal&lt;br /&gt; the artiest in me&lt;br /&gt; is a muse's slave&lt;br /&gt; because I will not betray&lt;br /&gt; the truth that I&lt;br /&gt; have learned by the way&lt;br /&gt; with vigorous verses&lt;br /&gt; composed of the beginnings&lt;br /&gt; I am a soothsayer&lt;br /&gt; I am a love of bores&lt;br /&gt; I am all of your beginnings&lt;br /&gt; to ask what's the cause&lt;br /&gt; I walk on somewhere&lt;br /&gt; as if it's fires of coals&lt;br /&gt; uneasily I go leaving&lt;br /&gt; prints of poems in the snow&lt;br /&gt; my fulfillment is what I gave&lt;br /&gt; my mattress is a rose&lt;br /&gt; for the imprint pg his&lt;br /&gt; form that it holds&lt;br /&gt; rose to the bee that blows&lt;br /&gt; it's nose hurriedly the hour pass&lt;br /&gt; speaking in a holy tongue&lt;br /&gt; the words are able artiest&lt;br /&gt; uttered as sensual love&lt;br /&gt; tomorrow is no beginning&lt;br /&gt; today never comes&lt;br /&gt; vigorous my verse&lt;br /&gt; will split your tongue&lt;br /&gt; I am speaks with forks&lt;br /&gt; of love time deviate&lt;br /&gt; sensual delight&lt;br /&gt; like my love&lt;br /&gt; dark as night&lt;br /&gt; as not to be seen&lt;br /&gt; without light by the whites&lt;br /&gt; separately the mattress cry&lt;br /&gt; house in love with it's foundation&lt;br /&gt; the bricks of which&lt;br /&gt; I am composed&lt;br /&gt; have holes, bubbles of air&lt;br /&gt; that furtively wares away the dawn&lt;br /&gt; the uneasy streets&lt;br /&gt; betrays the streetlights&lt;br /&gt; fads as fadding day&lt;br /&gt; dress yourself separately&lt;br /&gt; dress yourself as&lt;br /&gt; some Demaratus&lt;br /&gt; unbound, roll the&lt;br /&gt; hill up the Boulder Colorado&lt;br /&gt; of crouse I speak&lt;br /&gt; rhetorically&lt;br /&gt; none-the-less&lt;br /&gt; or less-the-none&lt;br /&gt; king Xerxes lost his son&lt;br /&gt; and none, yes none&lt;br /&gt; will be vindicated&lt;br /&gt; as God’s lost son&lt;br /&gt; the army of citizens&lt;br /&gt; insults the public way&lt;br /&gt; and the graves are&lt;br /&gt; lonely both night and day&lt;br /&gt; humble yourself&lt;br /&gt; bride the Gods&lt;br /&gt; shamelessly Aristotle&lt;br /&gt; is no enemies nor&lt;br /&gt; long lust intending&lt;br /&gt; as some airborne&lt;br /&gt; conversation over&lt;br /&gt; heard by Porphyry&lt;br /&gt; here is the great injustice&lt;br /&gt; that man was ever born&lt;br /&gt; shamelessly&lt;br /&gt; the deprived darn dart&lt;br /&gt; is the Sunday of the cause&lt;br /&gt; bloody Sunday&lt;br /&gt; bloody Monday&lt;br /&gt; count all private&lt;br /&gt; citizens as one&lt;br /&gt; publicly the feast&lt;br /&gt; with great zeal&lt;br /&gt; Xerxes will not&lt;br /&gt; kill the dawn&lt;br /&gt; in the public square&lt;br /&gt; the Christians getter&lt;br /&gt; to conquer your soul&lt;br /&gt; but be fore warned&lt;br /&gt; of their boredom&lt;br /&gt; they have no&lt;br /&gt; moments of joy&lt;br /&gt; without a thought&lt;br /&gt; of their God.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What misfortune&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What misfortune&lt;br /&gt; verse the dead&lt;br /&gt; what christian mourning&lt;br /&gt; stalks the vestibule&lt;br /&gt; what is kept from the truth&lt;br /&gt; when strange pleasure&lt;br /&gt; of verses to the adored&lt;br /&gt; speaks in low voices&lt;br /&gt; full of the night's dark&lt;br /&gt; the last day of the Christ&lt;br /&gt; is constantly on our lips&lt;br /&gt; and supplications of Mary&lt;br /&gt; combs the rooms&lt;br /&gt; where the middle&lt;br /&gt; age man\come too soon&lt;br /&gt; and immodest boys&lt;br /&gt; tugs at their tools&lt;br /&gt; and the perfect sense&lt;br /&gt; of rhythm is gold&lt;br /&gt; to my silver to&lt;br /&gt; what I hold&lt;br /&gt; Mithridates tops&lt;br /&gt; the hill with his man&lt;br /&gt; and powerful cities&lt;br /&gt; made of sand&lt;br /&gt; dissolve in the rain&lt;br /&gt; the bitten path&lt;br /&gt; leaves you to&lt;br /&gt; the soothsayer&lt;br /&gt; who dwells in the future&lt;br /&gt; when power is born&lt;br /&gt; and the secret place&lt;br /&gt; in my heart offers&lt;br /&gt; no clarity of opinions&lt;br /&gt; send in the offers&lt;br /&gt; of my heart&lt;br /&gt; send in the&lt;br /&gt; sufficient of poetic art&lt;br /&gt; understand the distinguished one&lt;br /&gt; who shadowy run&lt;br /&gt; expose the perils&lt;br /&gt; of poetry and let&lt;br /&gt; the ancestors be&lt;br /&gt; content to lie in&lt;br /&gt; their graves and &lt;br /&gt;wait the wait of&lt;br /&gt; man's coming downfall&lt;br /&gt; King Mithridates&lt;br /&gt; salutary as on&lt;br /&gt; spears my fortune&lt;br /&gt; with the pen&lt;br /&gt; unexpected to be let in&lt;br /&gt; let the noble companion&lt;br /&gt; remembered the traces&lt;br /&gt; of time as if only&lt;br /&gt; time is divine&lt;br /&gt; the vestibule wept&lt;br /&gt; it's reunion out of joint&lt;br /&gt; and excursions&lt;br /&gt; plumb the perils&lt;br /&gt; that wait the wait.&lt;br /&gt; -&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beautiful man&lt;br /&gt;hr looks up&lt;br /&gt;and smiles&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when it comes&lt;br /&gt;to love&lt;br /&gt;autumn will leave you&lt;br /&gt;then spring will&lt;br /&gt;come for you&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the nuisance&lt;br /&gt;of his sleep&lt;br /&gt;he is dreaming&lt;br /&gt;hopefully of me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a dark man's face&lt;br /&gt;holds the shine&lt;br /&gt;of the sun&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he asleep&lt;br /&gt;beneath the tree&lt;br /&gt;will not know&lt;br /&gt;of my passing&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched&lt;br /&gt;the sparrows eating&lt;br /&gt;and thought&lt;br /&gt;he only loves me&lt;br /&gt;with a full mouth-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;fall's rain&lt;br /&gt;fills the air&lt;br /&gt;I walk&lt;br /&gt;behind him&lt;br /&gt;enjoying the view&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a black man&lt;br /&gt;in high winds&lt;br /&gt;I wish they&lt;br /&gt;were my hands&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the dead leaves&lt;br /&gt;rustle with wind&lt;br /&gt;far off he is&lt;br /&gt;calling to me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some men&lt;br /&gt;are powerful&lt;br /&gt;as the air&lt;br /&gt;that can not&lt;br /&gt;be seen&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he looks like&lt;br /&gt;a good lover&lt;br /&gt;he turns away from me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seeks a heart&lt;br /&gt;just for the night&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he is not&lt;br /&gt;as chubby&lt;br /&gt;as a buddha&lt;br /&gt;still his beauty&lt;br /&gt;will do&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when he walks&lt;br /&gt;down the alley&lt;br /&gt;it is a spring&lt;br /&gt;path to my heart&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more beautiful men&lt;br /&gt;have walk&lt;br /&gt;through allies&lt;br /&gt;then walked on water&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beautiful full lips&lt;br /&gt;are not&lt;br /&gt;a dine a dozen&lt;br /&gt;unless you only&lt;br /&gt;count black men&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;each day that I&lt;br /&gt;do not see him&lt;br /&gt;is not in vain&lt;br /&gt;the first snow&lt;br /&gt;and other natural things&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if he do not come&lt;br /&gt;I am reminded&lt;br /&gt;that I must also&lt;br /&gt;wait for spring&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned how to be&lt;br /&gt;intimate with him&lt;br /&gt;because nature&lt;br /&gt;is intimate with me&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the cardinals&lt;br /&gt;and the robins&lt;br /&gt;never eat the bread&lt;br /&gt;I throw to the sparrows&lt;br /&gt;it seems that&lt;br /&gt;for that beautiful man&lt;br /&gt;I need some new poems&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Equally brain&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equally brain&lt;br /&gt;beautiful brain&lt;br /&gt;nervous state&lt;br /&gt;day kisses kissed&lt;br /&gt;and  hug to want&lt;br /&gt;beloved face&lt;br /&gt;impeccable legs&lt;br /&gt;and horse hair beard&lt;br /&gt;beautiful&lt;br /&gt;consummation of&lt;br /&gt;lacking nothing real&lt;br /&gt;desired and well bread&lt;br /&gt;as any lover save the first&lt;br /&gt;well bred as&lt;br /&gt;any lover man&lt;br /&gt;pseudo-beauty&lt;br /&gt;drink and blunts&lt;br /&gt;boredom with the fuck&lt;br /&gt;that is me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;dark meat sex with me&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;dark meat sex with me&lt;br /&gt;with your tongue and run&lt;br /&gt;your dick head that helmet&lt;br /&gt;of cum down my&lt;br /&gt;metronome tar tarnished&lt;br /&gt;tongue a musical run&lt;br /&gt;a primaeval image&lt;br /&gt;unfolding it's fold&lt;br /&gt;between my legs&lt;br /&gt;I am the shadowing of the&lt;br /&gt;Zulu king dangling&lt;br /&gt;priest like nacre&lt;br /&gt;and ormolu and&lt;br /&gt;rejections of the Gods&lt;br /&gt;any holy sock of the soul&lt;br /&gt;remember me in the&lt;br /&gt;hollowness of your hearing&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a&lt;br /&gt;metaphorical dance&lt;br /&gt;of wind's breath&lt;br /&gt;and words spoken&lt;br /&gt;through a glory hole&lt;br /&gt;and words of hysteria of rhythm&lt;br /&gt;a decor of rimes&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a&lt;br /&gt;cocaine remembrance&lt;br /&gt;a ballad of troubled&lt;br /&gt;generosity and a&lt;br /&gt;grand design like cuss words&lt;br /&gt;through teeth of gold&lt;br /&gt;and old shoes leathery&lt;br /&gt;wind wind swept toes&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a token from&lt;br /&gt;the soul a coonskin&lt;br /&gt;Daedalas in love&lt;br /&gt;with a juju man named&lt;br /&gt;conjo juba jump jingle&lt;br /&gt;go like a poem with&lt;br /&gt;your weariness in toll&lt;br /&gt;fly like drifting through&lt;br /&gt;the Malinda wind&lt;br /&gt;spread your arms&lt;br /&gt;like legs made of&lt;br /&gt;wings and sing, sing, sing your poems.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I live within&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I live within the hollowness&lt;br /&gt;of my soul I bold&lt;br /&gt;death-headed rose&lt;br /&gt;as violent as violent&lt;br /&gt;as a winter rose ironic&lt;br /&gt;and real and bestowal&lt;br /&gt;of blessings of growing old&lt;br /&gt;I once remembered me&lt;br /&gt;gray as a queen of the fuck&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a schizoid subterranean&lt;br /&gt;a jubilee of banjos&lt;br /&gt;and drums a weaving of&lt;br /&gt;threads of time and&lt;br /&gt;mazurka dolls with human eyes&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a presence&lt;br /&gt;you to hoo doo&lt;br /&gt;that dance and rants the&lt;br /&gt;real way of the flesh&lt;br /&gt;of how to recognize&lt;br /&gt;your ways of feeling&lt;br /&gt;as one human and yet&lt;br /&gt;divine as a thing&lt;br /&gt;of God's own design&lt;br /&gt;fly. Fly, fly like a kite&lt;br /&gt;made of skin&lt;br /&gt;catch the weary wind&lt;br /&gt;waddle yourself in&lt;br /&gt;rub your bones&lt;br /&gt;against the tombstone&lt;br /&gt;sharpen them to a point&lt;br /&gt;and write the poem that&lt;br /&gt;you was meant to write&lt;br /&gt;as if it is the food of life&lt;br /&gt;d it within your heart's end&lt;br /&gt;thought your emotions&lt;br /&gt;and win the key to the&lt;br /&gt;coffin's gate lay like&lt;br /&gt;licks of love any gardening will do&lt;br /&gt;because of ways that you pray&lt;br /&gt;old on and within&lt;br /&gt;Sunday shouts hallelujah&lt;br /&gt;to forgotten folks as sweet&lt;br /&gt;as stale bullets and the&lt;br /&gt;gun smoke is a diva&lt;br /&gt;a planted poem to raise&lt;br /&gt;in the comfort of your arms&lt;br /&gt;plant the horses children&lt;br /&gt;sharp as thorns&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a recall&lt;br /&gt;of shattered words&lt;br /&gt;that escapes like&lt;br /&gt;black birds from&lt;br /&gt;the hollow of your head&lt;br /&gt;each poem is bold each long since old&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a bear back ride&lt;br /&gt;of sexual possessions&lt;br /&gt;a broker of spring&lt;br /&gt;of growing broken things&lt;br /&gt;green as money and&lt;br /&gt;muscleman mosaic eyes&lt;br /&gt;that cries god speed you&lt;br /&gt;to your grave to meet&lt;br /&gt;the maker of everything&lt;br /&gt;god speed by and by&lt;br /&gt;each poem sees like florist&lt;br /&gt;the vivid children who circus our lives&lt;br /&gt;and turn the super markets&lt;br /&gt;into a zoo&lt;br /&gt;go sue the dark side&lt;br /&gt;with wrecked moments&lt;br /&gt;and Mendelian and sweet&lt;br /&gt;talk poems that can hush&lt;br /&gt;and hustle the heart&lt;br /&gt;warble your fancies&lt;br /&gt;you who would&lt;br /&gt;pillow the dawn with poems&lt;br /&gt;the unrelenting sunflower&lt;br /&gt;is like each poem like&lt;br /&gt;quarrels between the thumbs&lt;br /&gt;and clipped nails each&lt;br /&gt;a crescent moon&lt;br /&gt;the whipping struggle&lt;br /&gt;is alive in our time&lt;br /&gt;the unchristened racism&lt;br /&gt;do not winter's it&lt;br /&gt;Sunday in the church&lt;br /&gt;christian Christ in a sob&lt;br /&gt;i am for sure the son of gods&lt;br /&gt;i am a thing that&lt;br /&gt;knee grip man and i can&lt;br /&gt;write the breath of God into a poem&lt;br /&gt;knee grip man blows their&lt;br /&gt;hate into children&lt;br /&gt;who sucks on it as some sweet candy&lt;br /&gt;charm is tinted by racism's labor&lt;br /&gt;against the children of the child God&lt;br /&gt;each poem wakes&lt;br /&gt;the slanting angel&lt;br /&gt;chronic in their lust&lt;br /&gt;with their polished&lt;br /&gt;austere poems writ&lt;br /&gt;from Frederick of the Douglass liberty&lt;br /&gt;beautiful one the&lt;br /&gt;systole stolen from&lt;br /&gt;and silver given to the poor&lt;br /&gt;each poem is like brain matter&lt;br /&gt;from which they come&lt;br /&gt;great as dead blood&lt;br /&gt;and dead rain and dead tears&lt;br /&gt;and joys of dead fears&lt;br /&gt;each poem is a vision&lt;br /&gt;of the Gods speaking&lt;br /&gt;in tongues&lt;br /&gt;writ in bronze&lt;br /&gt;runaround darkness lit by a last&lt;br /&gt;lust lost in the lingerings&lt;br /&gt;of the lustful suck&lt;br /&gt;each poem stumbles pursing your heart&lt;br /&gt;and your lost needs&lt;br /&gt;each east by northeast&lt;br /&gt;the younger shapes of thing to be&lt;br /&gt;shapes of shackles at the feet&lt;br /&gt;of that green lady who lights the sea&lt;br /&gt;shackles gleams&lt;br /&gt;in the sun lady bronze&lt;br /&gt;your shadow blocks&lt;br /&gt;the yearling ones&lt;br /&gt;here for generations&lt;br /&gt;long since born&lt;br /&gt;freedom is no bonanza&lt;br /&gt;but golden ring&lt;br /&gt;welled in place is&lt;br /&gt;the true nature of the thing&lt;br /&gt;to you who are my subscribers&lt;br /&gt;beware the tainted corn&lt;br /&gt;by Monsanto the maze&lt;br /&gt;is a whirlpool that seeks into&lt;br /&gt;your genetic to enslave.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;hide the full moon&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hide the full moon&lt;br /&gt;within the bright places&lt;br /&gt;of your paediatrics’s&lt;br /&gt;parry roller 's heart hush the&lt;br /&gt;hustle of  dead&lt;br /&gt;folks like they are&lt;br /&gt;watching tv of&lt;br /&gt;which Whitman&lt;br /&gt;never wrote&lt;br /&gt;the stealer of your&lt;br /&gt;Moses are stolen&lt;br /&gt;like slaves shipped&lt;br /&gt;down river dead or&lt;br /&gt;alive is Ezekiel to&lt;br /&gt;be paid and John&lt;br /&gt;Brown's body is laced&lt;br /&gt;with deliver me Jehovah&lt;br /&gt;the leaves are scariest&lt;br /&gt;still on the trees&lt;br /&gt;in November&lt;br /&gt;their dead toned voices&lt;br /&gt;Malik the hood with hoots&lt;br /&gt;calling of the dead to wake&lt;br /&gt;in Mexico&lt;br /&gt;and smuggle themselves north&lt;br /&gt;over to freedom&lt;br /&gt;as a blaze of grass&lt;br /&gt;or strand of pubic hair&lt;br /&gt;between the cheeks&lt;br /&gt;of the ass&lt;br /&gt;eternity never returns&lt;br /&gt;repeatedly or otherwise&lt;br /&gt;only epiphanies borrows&lt;br /&gt; the sleep tossed&lt;br /&gt;into their dreams by&lt;br /&gt;tv still awake in the darkness&lt;br /&gt;all of your undiscovered energies&lt;br /&gt;are still an armor&lt;br /&gt;half-roses half-knocking in rimes&lt;br /&gt;it's  angels never recognize the heat&lt;br /&gt;spent in the dance of sex&lt;br /&gt;it's truly OK the leukemic pistols&lt;br /&gt;are only killing their own&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Tucuman’s skin&lt;br /&gt;jaybird its jungle of coins&lt;br /&gt;last month the ghosts&lt;br /&gt;was in town looking&lt;br /&gt;like children with&lt;br /&gt;mouths full of candy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Antiochus the Epiphanes&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antiochus the Epiphanes&lt;br /&gt;the beloved of the loved&lt;br /&gt;the struggle of his heart&lt;br /&gt;in the place of the&lt;br /&gt;elegant place&lt;br /&gt;set him apart&lt;br /&gt;in Pygna the king&lt;br /&gt;falls just for a moment&lt;br /&gt;and all calls the&lt;br /&gt;beating of the pulses&lt;br /&gt;of Macedonians hopes&lt;br /&gt;the lion horse is dead&lt;br /&gt;the Tyrian coral lead&lt;br /&gt;the brief moment&lt;br /&gt;remembered what&lt;br /&gt;was not said&lt;br /&gt;Ammonius Saccas&lt;br /&gt;is in the church&lt;br /&gt;of curiosity&lt;br /&gt;and the barbarous face&lt;br /&gt;made of wretch glass&lt;br /&gt;cracks its baptized ass&lt;br /&gt;debauchery is something&lt;br /&gt;that will always last&lt;br /&gt;and the generous allowance&lt;br /&gt;is falling fast&lt;br /&gt;stop the ostentatious dawn&lt;br /&gt;stop the selling of the sun&lt;br /&gt;the dived gift&lt;br /&gt;is the love of the piss&lt;br /&gt;in ten beauty handsome faces&lt;br /&gt;endowed with Sophist&lt;br /&gt;and grace and perhaps&lt;br /&gt;nevertheless the destiny&lt;br /&gt;is broken on the bow&lt;br /&gt;strung from cloud yo cloud&lt;br /&gt;endowed just so&lt;br /&gt;I appropriate your love tool&lt;br /&gt;I school the fool&lt;br /&gt;I laudably woo&lt;br /&gt;the high-sounding remembrance&lt;br /&gt;of who is who&lt;br /&gt;o return my friend&lt;br /&gt;to beauty and sane&lt;br /&gt;endowed to play the cock game&lt;br /&gt;I am the customer of my breath&lt;br /&gt;I am the pagan at rest&lt;br /&gt;I call on the best&lt;br /&gt;idiot to my politic.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;valiant Achean league&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;valiant Achean league&lt;br /&gt;fear no deed indeed&lt;br /&gt;Daos and Critolaos&lt;br /&gt;wept for thee&lt;br /&gt;marvelous praise&lt;br /&gt;sways the day&lt;br /&gt;into night's glory&lt;br /&gt;Ptolem of Lathyrus&lt;br /&gt;our nation shows&lt;br /&gt;that there is writ&lt;br /&gt;in banished gold&lt;br /&gt;the seventh year foretold&lt;br /&gt;in an old book&lt;br /&gt;of the lost souls&lt;br /&gt;of utter sensual love&lt;br /&gt;fitting for sex&lt;br /&gt;without the glove&lt;br /&gt;this is an artist’s evident&lt;br /&gt;easily understood&lt;br /&gt;this is the chestnut eyes&lt;br /&gt;deep in colors of wine&lt;br /&gt;offer your beloved body&lt;br /&gt;to the shameless man of the moon&lt;br /&gt;with moon eyes&lt;br /&gt;he comes like youth&lt;br /&gt;ideal lips licks and suck&lt;br /&gt;limbs for bed&lt;br /&gt;and the ready fuck&lt;br /&gt;morally I have no shame&lt;br /&gt;painting him with words&lt;br /&gt;was destined to raise&lt;br /&gt;the cock sky high&lt;br /&gt;with wet praise&lt;br /&gt;he fresh from&lt;br /&gt;the funeral of our friend&lt;br /&gt;he King of Commagene&lt;br /&gt;epitaph told with&lt;br /&gt;weeping voice&lt;br /&gt;sojourned the journey&lt;br /&gt;of the soul&lt;br /&gt;disconsolate as if&lt;br /&gt;the scholarly Antiochus&lt;br /&gt;was laid to rest&lt;br /&gt;in a coffin of gold&lt;br /&gt;venerable in his young age&lt;br /&gt;taken by A I Ds&lt;br /&gt;no worthy glory there&lt;br /&gt;humanity's lost&lt;br /&gt;courageous laid to rest&lt;br /&gt;such a nobly quality&lt;br /&gt;to his death.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gladly I approach&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gladly I approach&lt;br /&gt;with praises on&lt;br /&gt;my tongue of he&lt;br /&gt;the loved one&lt;br /&gt;benevolent in body&lt;br /&gt;suggested in his walk&lt;br /&gt;Callistratus reborn&lt;br /&gt;I have not a doubt&lt;br /&gt;mild and meek&lt;br /&gt;descended from the Greeks&lt;br /&gt;hospitality in his talk&lt;br /&gt;the sway of provident&lt;br /&gt;in the sway of his hips&lt;br /&gt;the quality of his lips&lt;br /&gt;to kiss and suck&lt;br /&gt;no Julian's indifference&lt;br /&gt;in the pounding of his fuck&lt;br /&gt;a high priest of manly love&lt;br /&gt;exhorting and gushing&lt;br /&gt;and positive spin&lt;br /&gt;he is fond of his&lt;br /&gt;love of men&lt;br /&gt;consider this&lt;br /&gt;his nurtured friend&lt;br /&gt;a conception of&lt;br /&gt;performance in his love&lt;br /&gt;nothing excess nothing lost&lt;br /&gt;women of Greek&lt;br /&gt;did talk when he&lt;br /&gt;left my bedroom&lt;br /&gt;still smelling of his&lt;br /&gt;body's perfume&lt;br /&gt;I was always able&lt;br /&gt;to please him sweet&lt;br /&gt;and toward the grave&lt;br /&gt;maim of God did&lt;br /&gt;we seek last I seen&lt;br /&gt;he organized his cloths&lt;br /&gt;and rose to meet&lt;br /&gt;religion for he be bold.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es&lt;b&gt;teemed citizens&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esteemed citizens&lt;br /&gt;dark-clad of skin&lt;br /&gt;verse of pleasure&lt;br /&gt;of love of men&lt;br /&gt;I compose this for you&lt;br /&gt;agreeable handsomeness&lt;br /&gt;like some childhood tune&lt;br /&gt;I hear the bells of birds&lt;br /&gt;chattering sweetly&lt;br /&gt;I measure the pleasure&lt;br /&gt;of his meat and&lt;br /&gt;lay my head down&lt;br /&gt;to sleep my sleep.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;beloved, completely&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beloved, completely&lt;br /&gt;do I adore&lt;br /&gt;the embrace&lt;br /&gt;of yielding to&lt;br /&gt;your given love&lt;br /&gt;lips like other&lt;br /&gt;are stigmatized&lt;br /&gt;against mine&lt;br /&gt;and I have no&lt;br /&gt;shame in my desires&lt;br /&gt;of imagination&lt;br /&gt;divine completely&lt;br /&gt;given is what I give&lt;br /&gt;sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;to mount the coming years.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fulfill my deviate delights&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fulfill my deviate delights&lt;br /&gt;sensual as is so right&lt;br /&gt;hurriedly speak of love&lt;br /&gt;uneasy the furtive lust&lt;br /&gt;linger long and&lt;br /&gt;gains its vigorous&lt;br /&gt;as we sleep away&lt;br /&gt;the peace of being suspect&lt;br /&gt;artists compose&lt;br /&gt;the mattress as a rose&lt;br /&gt;the thing is still&lt;br /&gt;the thing by any other name&lt;br /&gt;meditate on what is brought&lt;br /&gt;what distinct mommies&lt;br /&gt;have taught combine&lt;br /&gt;our passions into one&lt;br /&gt;perceptibly we&lt;br /&gt;round the night&lt;br /&gt;fashion half seen&lt;br /&gt;our feeling into desires&lt;br /&gt;let me not be unfulfilled&lt;br /&gt;sometimes it hurt&lt;br /&gt;to say I am yours&lt;br /&gt;you are mine&lt;br /&gt;remember the lines&lt;br /&gt;of my face there&lt;br /&gt;is a map of memories there.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;completely in despair&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;completely in despair&lt;br /&gt;I spare my lips&lt;br /&gt;the hurt of your kiss&lt;br /&gt;embrace my wanted desires&lt;br /&gt;there is still time&lt;br /&gt;time's sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;is stigmatized in the light&lt;br /&gt;this is the Wednesday&lt;br /&gt;morning that I give to you&lt;br /&gt;what have you got to loose&lt;br /&gt;but deletions of flying away&lt;br /&gt;my imagination is your to have&lt;br /&gt;for I seek your lips&lt;br /&gt;and tune your kiss&lt;br /&gt;seeking not to miss&lt;br /&gt;completely the risk&lt;br /&gt;of what love can do.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;beloved man&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beloved man&lt;br /&gt;yes I can&lt;br /&gt;loose my lost&lt;br /&gt;sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;sing with me&lt;br /&gt;come onto the stage&lt;br /&gt;in the theater where&lt;br /&gt;our love plays&lt;br /&gt;out the acts&lt;br /&gt;of chattering morality&lt;br /&gt;handsomeness is as&lt;br /&gt;handsome men do&lt;br /&gt;do you find me&lt;br /&gt;agreeable of my&lt;br /&gt;tongue's language&lt;br /&gt;do you see beyond&lt;br /&gt;my skin of verses&lt;br /&gt;of my pleasures&lt;br /&gt;daring be mine&lt;br /&gt;like some candy heart&lt;br /&gt;at valentine time&lt;br /&gt;I am a choice&lt;br /&gt;cut of meat&lt;br /&gt;a citizen of loving men&lt;br /&gt;I agreeable as is the sea&lt;br /&gt;that birth me&lt;br /&gt;within my mother's womb&lt;br /&gt;to me you are esteemed&lt;br /&gt;as one who I should love&lt;br /&gt;just because your&lt;br /&gt;beauty moves my loins&lt;br /&gt;I touch you and I catch fire&lt;br /&gt;I ride like riding the waves&lt;br /&gt;upon which is played&lt;br /&gt;no rebuses of rejections&lt;br /&gt;I and Pink Floyd are&lt;br /&gt;wishing that you was here&lt;br /&gt;to strawberries my letter 22&lt;br /&gt;and do me pleasure&lt;br /&gt; clandestinely I sought&lt;br /&gt;you out of your hole&lt;br /&gt;you holding on tight&lt;br /&gt;as white on rice&lt;br /&gt;as black on walnut&lt;br /&gt;as if Eric Clapton&lt;br /&gt;is the forever man&lt;br /&gt;you esteemed man of my heart&lt;br /&gt;how many times&lt;br /&gt;must I say I love you&lt;br /&gt;when the stage is played&lt;br /&gt;in the theater of the grave&lt;br /&gt;the theater of Sidon&lt;br /&gt;400 A. D. three and three&lt;br /&gt;you to me want you&lt;br /&gt;be my all over man&lt;br /&gt;rebel man rebel man&lt;br /&gt;shall I all over you&lt;br /&gt;with love with&lt;br /&gt;leading love like&lt;br /&gt;God's in the house of sex&lt;br /&gt;or lord's going down&lt;br /&gt;on the crown head&lt;br /&gt;little Feat got nothing&lt;br /&gt;on me I am innocent&lt;br /&gt;of being a Dixie chicken&lt;br /&gt;this is so true of&lt;br /&gt;both me and you here&lt;br /&gt;in dark-town St. Louis&lt;br /&gt;here completely undone&lt;br /&gt;embrace the cold&lt;br /&gt;of the setting sun&lt;br /&gt;once I was lost in time&lt;br /&gt;now with you&lt;br /&gt;divinely at my side&lt;br /&gt;sick sensual desires&lt;br /&gt;are slick as ice&lt;br /&gt;of love's have not&lt;br /&gt;drip and rip to drop&lt;br /&gt;there is an antiquity&lt;br /&gt;in the miracles of your eyes&lt;br /&gt;and I a sensual pagan&lt;br /&gt;of desires&lt;br /&gt;the temple is ready&lt;br /&gt;for worship the&lt;br /&gt;enthusiasms of  the crowded&lt;br /&gt;theories of Maximus&lt;br /&gt;someday will fall&lt;br /&gt;over heard frequent&lt;br /&gt;conversations falls&lt;br /&gt;from the wall the&lt;br /&gt;manifested greatness&lt;br /&gt;is none to clever at all&lt;br /&gt;here is my uneasy&lt;br /&gt;result, here is mine&lt;br /&gt;church of Nicoinedeia&lt;br /&gt;reverence is forsaken&lt;br /&gt;and the piety of&lt;br /&gt;Christians are never&lt;br /&gt;admired without pity&lt;br /&gt;the corn hog is rooting&lt;br /&gt;in the wise soil&lt;br /&gt;of the soul and uneasy&lt;br /&gt;I go by Scriptures&lt;br /&gt;never before told&lt;br /&gt;who ride upon the back&lt;br /&gt;of the church, who&lt;br /&gt;in uproar reeds&lt;br /&gt;who the pagan praise&lt;br /&gt;the Greeks and still&lt;br /&gt;have no God to meet.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Love's certainty&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Love's certainty&lt;br /&gt;lives in a distant place&lt;br /&gt;circumstances separate&lt;br /&gt;the wen from the wane&lt;br /&gt;grieve deeply if you can&lt;br /&gt;desires circumstances&lt;br /&gt;considerable as a man&lt;br /&gt;perhaps destiny&lt;br /&gt;is but a dance&lt;br /&gt;that fads forever&lt;br /&gt;into a certain happenstance&lt;br /&gt;perhaps attraction&lt;br /&gt;is obliged to beckon&lt;br /&gt;you in and win for you a mate.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I have a rhetorical tongue&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a rhetorical tongue&lt;br /&gt;I vindicate the young&lt;br /&gt;I oracle of none&lt;br /&gt;deprive the sun&lt;br /&gt;of submittable love&lt;br /&gt;I love no boy and&lt;br /&gt;want none, I am&lt;br /&gt;shameless just because&lt;br /&gt;you decided to love me&lt;br /&gt;shall I woo you&lt;br /&gt;with my suggested hands?&lt;br /&gt;Shall you bride my&lt;br /&gt;tongue for a poem?&lt;br /&gt;Shall we love as men&lt;br /&gt;content to lay lazily&lt;br /&gt;all undone and&lt;br /&gt;as humble as a pillow&lt;br /&gt;with its dent of your head?&lt;br /&gt;Our enemies are&lt;br /&gt;at last dead of their&lt;br /&gt;private publicity&lt;br /&gt;and publicly we&lt;br /&gt;walk hand in hand&lt;br /&gt;resignation has no&lt;br /&gt;meaning when all&lt;br /&gt;is said we humiliate&lt;br /&gt;none and none Persian&lt;br /&gt;the rug, we are intriguers&lt;br /&gt;of love's last stand&lt;br /&gt;we are men in love with men&lt;br /&gt;the anxiety that hides the night&lt;br /&gt;fright the child but&lt;br /&gt;I act upon the conquer&lt;br /&gt;and give the finger to the moon&lt;br /&gt;explaining that no true&lt;br /&gt;lover who is true will&lt;br /&gt;come too soon&lt;br /&gt;there is a child of chills in the wind&lt;br /&gt;as it should be in mid November&lt;br /&gt;and the wind swept leaves&lt;br /&gt;are auguring in the streets&lt;br /&gt;a kind-a dance rhetorically.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For the feel of joy&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the feel of joy&lt;br /&gt;the peaks of it to reach&lt;br /&gt;the victorious love&lt;br /&gt;of the faces that we meet&lt;br /&gt;in dim bars and&lt;br /&gt;hidden back rooms&lt;br /&gt;and manicured parks&lt;br /&gt;the plain faces of boys&lt;br /&gt;who calls to joy&lt;br /&gt;here is my love&lt;br /&gt;here is my life&lt;br /&gt;here is the right to love&lt;br /&gt;and the right to fight&lt;br /&gt;no shame touches us&lt;br /&gt;no suggested conversations&lt;br /&gt;unheard&lt;br /&gt;to many cares&lt;br /&gt;of the many words&lt;br /&gt;moments of words&lt;br /&gt;is mine to give&lt;br /&gt;give what you feel&lt;br /&gt;is our only right&lt;br /&gt;in an army of men&lt;br /&gt;at the humble feast&lt;br /&gt;the table is set&lt;br /&gt;for men to meet.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;If Heracles&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Heracles&lt;br /&gt;is an elegant taste&lt;br /&gt;if memories plays&lt;br /&gt;at taking its place&lt;br /&gt;if age guide young men&lt;br /&gt;toward an ancient grace&lt;br /&gt;out the center is the&lt;br /&gt;center of the place&lt;br /&gt;the amorous water rung&lt;br /&gt;the handsome face&lt;br /&gt;the noble face&lt;br /&gt;the purest is always&lt;br /&gt;difficult to take&lt;br /&gt;the plain is on&lt;br /&gt;an elegant taste&lt;br /&gt;the man I love is full of grace&lt;br /&gt;I love a mighty prayer&lt;br /&gt;and I plunge my hands&lt;br /&gt;where the silver lay&lt;br /&gt;and mighty my face&lt;br /&gt;as best as I can&lt;br /&gt;O hear the silver bells&lt;br /&gt;calling all to grace&lt;br /&gt;the set is set at&lt;br /&gt;the table of our race&lt;br /&gt;this elegant flower&lt;br /&gt;of a man, this&lt;br /&gt;excellent that waits&lt;br /&gt;on the closing hour&lt;br /&gt;where love is made.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I beg to differ&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I beg to differ&lt;br /&gt;that age is a wound&lt;br /&gt;no such hideous knife&lt;br /&gt;can cut so deep&lt;br /&gt;the art of poetry&lt;br /&gt;is no such drug&lt;br /&gt;to dull and numb&lt;br /&gt;the suffering of the&lt;br /&gt;imagination and words&lt;br /&gt;fetch all that you are&lt;br /&gt;unaware of growing old&lt;br /&gt;with grace&lt;br /&gt;as if rightly should be&lt;br /&gt;pine not for spent youth&lt;br /&gt;do not dig into the wounds&lt;br /&gt;the edge is sharp this is true&lt;br /&gt;endurance is not for youth&lt;br /&gt;my refuge is clear&lt;br /&gt;my gray hairs are here&lt;br /&gt;my growing old&lt;br /&gt;is a step forward.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ostentatiously&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ostentatiously&lt;br /&gt;the Christians&lt;br /&gt;are baptized&lt;br /&gt;in the grave&lt;br /&gt;the holy water&lt;br /&gt;can not wash away&lt;br /&gt;the stains of the minds&lt;br /&gt;the wretchedness&lt;br /&gt;of their abandoned God&lt;br /&gt;generous will the sins&lt;br /&gt;of his lords&lt;br /&gt;O such a horrible thing&lt;br /&gt;the customers are&lt;br /&gt;generous with their&lt;br /&gt;allowance is a corrupter&lt;br /&gt;house without and within&lt;br /&gt;these word I give&lt;br /&gt;by the poet's tongue&lt;br /&gt;none is the parent&lt;br /&gt;and none regards&lt;br /&gt;the traditions of things&lt;br /&gt;to come high-sounding&lt;br /&gt;is my tune higher&lt;br /&gt;then me and spiritual peace&lt;br /&gt;is no similar thing to teach&lt;br /&gt;remember my words&lt;br /&gt;and this matter strong&lt;br /&gt;some will say&lt;br /&gt;that I do Christians wrong&lt;br /&gt;the divine gift&lt;br /&gt;will not lead you wrong&lt;br /&gt;when the house of the church&lt;br /&gt;is some secret den&lt;br /&gt;wherein boys&lt;br /&gt;are molested by men&lt;br /&gt;then God have fallen&lt;br /&gt;from his high place&lt;br /&gt;and the wretches guards the gate&lt;br /&gt;idiots of the sinful church&lt;br /&gt;barbarous is your hate&lt;br /&gt;baptize none with your&lt;br /&gt;debaucheries Christians&lt;br /&gt;where is your once&lt;br /&gt;handsome face?&lt;br /&gt;Why regard you rarely&lt;br /&gt;the whole human race?&lt;br /&gt;My life endures the&lt;br /&gt;slings and arrows&lt;br /&gt;and bullets to booth&lt;br /&gt;of your traditional&lt;br /&gt;philosophers who&lt;br /&gt;in the name of our God&lt;br /&gt;yes yours and mine&lt;br /&gt;the saving of all souls&lt;br /&gt;is ostentatiously declined.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;But nonetheless&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But nonetheless&lt;br /&gt;he said when he spoke&lt;br /&gt;your God is but a ghost&lt;br /&gt;a secret host&lt;br /&gt;and as such so it be&lt;br /&gt;the sorry wretches&lt;br /&gt;comes of hats&lt;br /&gt;and suits and ties&lt;br /&gt;their ears still&lt;br /&gt;ringing with the holy lie&lt;br /&gt;ten years now since&lt;br /&gt;last my beauty fled&lt;br /&gt;and with it it took&lt;br /&gt;all of my curiosities&lt;br /&gt;no longer am I&lt;br /&gt;a customer of the truth&lt;br /&gt;for it have forsaken me&lt;br /&gt;when last fled my youth&lt;br /&gt;for a body still fit&lt;br /&gt;full of youth&lt;br /&gt;regard this as my last stand&lt;br /&gt;as no plead to relive&lt;br /&gt;the life given me&lt;br /&gt;for I was baptized&lt;br /&gt;in poetry and can&lt;br /&gt;no longer see through&lt;br /&gt;the rose colored lens&lt;br /&gt;of my parents the Christians&lt;br /&gt;meantime my mind&lt;br /&gt;was already gone&lt;br /&gt;toward the divine gift&lt;br /&gt;of a handsome face&lt;br /&gt;and the horrible lies&lt;br /&gt;of the Christian race&lt;br /&gt;when the dance is&lt;br /&gt;more generous&lt;br /&gt;then your God&lt;br /&gt;when so much&lt;br /&gt;sinning you are allowed&lt;br /&gt;when nonetheless will not stand&lt;br /&gt;and beauty is a philosopher&lt;br /&gt;in the banker's hands&lt;br /&gt;and the church is&lt;br /&gt;but a secret den&lt;br /&gt;and the official baptize&lt;br /&gt;is done in blood&lt;br /&gt;man will sin just because.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I saw him in the dark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I saw him in the dark&lt;br /&gt;walking in the shadows&lt;br /&gt;of the shadows of tress&lt;br /&gt;his shadow looked like&lt;br /&gt;a lap dog the kind&lt;br /&gt;that I have never seen.&lt;br /&gt;walking in the shadows&lt;br /&gt;of the shadows of tress&lt;br /&gt;his shadow looked like&lt;br /&gt;a lap dog the kind&lt;br /&gt;that I have never seen.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;What misfortune&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What misfortune&lt;br /&gt;verse the dead&lt;br /&gt;what Christian mourning&lt;br /&gt;stalks the vestibule&lt;br /&gt;what is kept from the truth&lt;br /&gt;when strangle pleasure&lt;br /&gt;of verses to the adored&lt;br /&gt;speaks in low voices&lt;br /&gt;full of the night's darkness&lt;br /&gt;the last day of Christ&lt;br /&gt;is constantly on my lips&lt;br /&gt;and supplications of Marry&lt;br /&gt;combs the room&lt;br /&gt;where the middle aged man&lt;br /&gt;comes too soon&lt;br /&gt;and immodest boys&lt;br /&gt;tags at their tools&lt;br /&gt;and the perfect sense&lt;br /&gt;of rhythm is golden&lt;br /&gt;to my silver to&lt;br /&gt;what I hold&lt;br /&gt;Mithridates tops&lt;br /&gt;the hill with his man&lt;br /&gt;and powerful cities&lt;br /&gt;made of sand&lt;br /&gt;devolve in the rain&lt;br /&gt;and resolve the beaten path&lt;br /&gt;leads you to the soothsayers&lt;br /&gt;who dwells in the future&lt;br /&gt;when power is born&lt;br /&gt;and the secret place&lt;br /&gt;in my heart offers&lt;br /&gt;no clarity of opinion&lt;br /&gt;send in the offers&lt;br /&gt;of my heart&lt;br /&gt;send in the sufficient&lt;br /&gt;of poetic art&lt;br /&gt;understand the&lt;br /&gt;distinguished one&lt;br /&gt;who shadowy runs&lt;br /&gt;expose the perils&lt;br /&gt;of poetry and let&lt;br /&gt;the ancestors be&lt;br /&gt;content to lie in&lt;br /&gt;their graves and&lt;br /&gt;wait the wait of&lt;br /&gt;man';s coming down fall&lt;br /&gt;King Mithridates&lt;br /&gt;salutary as on&lt;br /&gt;the pin of a pricking&lt;br /&gt;spear my fortune&lt;br /&gt;with the pen unexpected&lt;br /&gt;to be let in&lt;br /&gt;let the noble companion&lt;br /&gt;remember the traces&lt;br /&gt;of time as if only&lt;br /&gt;time is divine&lt;br /&gt;the vestibule weeps&lt;br /&gt;its remains of reunion&lt;br /&gt;out of joint and excursions&lt;br /&gt;pumps the perils&lt;br /&gt;that waits the wait.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here my love&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here my love&lt;br /&gt;the day breaks open&lt;br /&gt;just because&lt;br /&gt;it has done &lt;br /&gt;it before.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Flippant Byzantine&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flippant Byzantine&lt;br /&gt;flippant serious matter&lt;br /&gt;diligently I cuss&lt;br /&gt;the God that did&lt;br /&gt;not give me head&lt;br /&gt;be you familiar with&lt;br /&gt;your God in a sexual way&lt;br /&gt;be you lustful&lt;br /&gt;before the grave &lt;br /&gt;the Syhvaliant Achaean League&lt;br /&gt;fear no deed indeed&lt;br /&gt;Daos and Critolaos&lt;br /&gt;weep for thee&lt;br /&gt;marvelous praise&lt;br /&gt;sways the day&lt;br /&gt;into night's glory&lt;br /&gt;Ptolem of Lathyrus&lt;br /&gt;out nation shows&lt;br /&gt;that there is writ&lt;br /&gt;in banish gold&lt;br /&gt;the seventh year foretold&lt;br /&gt;in an old book of poetry&lt;br /&gt;of utter sensual love&lt;br /&gt;fitting for sex&lt;br /&gt;without the glove&lt;br /&gt;this is my artsiest evident&lt;br /&gt;theses poems&lt;br /&gt;easily understood&lt;br /&gt;this is the chestnut eyes&lt;br /&gt;deep  in colors of wine&lt;br /&gt;offer your beloved body&lt;br /&gt;to the shameless man&lt;br /&gt;of the moon&lt;br /&gt;will moon eye you&lt;br /&gt;he comes like youth&lt;br /&gt;ideal lips licks and suck&lt;br /&gt;limbs foreboded&lt;br /&gt;and ready to fuck&lt;br /&gt;morally I have no shame&lt;br /&gt;painting him with words&lt;br /&gt;was destined to raise&lt;br /&gt;the cock shy high&lt;br /&gt;with wet praises&lt;br /&gt;he fresh from the farm&lt;br /&gt;from the funeral of corn&lt;br /&gt;our lost friend&lt;br /&gt;he King of Commagene&lt;br /&gt;epitaph told with weeping voice&lt;br /&gt;sojourned the journey&lt;br /&gt;of the soul&lt;br /&gt;disconsolate as if&lt;br /&gt;the scholarly, Antiochus&lt;br /&gt;was laid to rest&lt;br /&gt;venerable in his growing&lt;br /&gt;young age&lt;br /&gt;taken by Aids&lt;br /&gt;no worthily glory there&lt;br /&gt;humanity's lost&lt;br /&gt;courageous laid to rest&lt;br /&gt;such a noble guilty&lt;br /&gt;to his death.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gladly I approach&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gladly I approach&lt;br /&gt;with praises on&lt;br /&gt;my tongue of he&lt;br /&gt;the loved one&lt;br /&gt;benevolent body&lt;br /&gt;suggested in his walk&lt;br /&gt;Callistratus reborn&lt;br /&gt;I have not a doubt&lt;br /&gt;mild and meek&lt;br /&gt;descended from the Greeks&lt;br /&gt;hospitality in his talk&lt;br /&gt;the sway pf provident&lt;br /&gt;in his hips&lt;br /&gt;the quality of his lips&lt;br /&gt;to kiss and suck&lt;br /&gt;no Julian's indifference&lt;br /&gt;in his gracious fuck&lt;br /&gt;a hijack priest&lt;br /&gt;of manly love&lt;br /&gt;exhorting and guiding&lt;br /&gt;and positive spin&lt;br /&gt;he is found of his&lt;br /&gt;love of men consider this&lt;br /&gt;his nurtured friends&lt;br /&gt;a conception of performance&lt;br /&gt;in his love&lt;br /&gt;nothing excess nothing lost&lt;br /&gt;O how the old women&lt;br /&gt;of Greece did talk from their windows&lt;br /&gt;of the passing day where&lt;br /&gt;from building to building&lt;br /&gt;across the street is laundries strung&lt;br /&gt;they talk when he leaves my bedroom&lt;br /&gt;it still smelling of his&lt;br /&gt;body's perfume&lt;br /&gt;I was always able&lt;br /&gt;to please him sweet&lt;br /&gt;and toward the grave&lt;br /&gt;mien of God did&lt;br /&gt;we seek last I seen&lt;br /&gt;he organized his clothes&lt;br /&gt;and rose to meet&lt;br /&gt;religion for he be bold.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Esteemed citizens&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esteemed citizens&lt;br /&gt;dark-clad of skin&lt;br /&gt;verse of pleasure&lt;br /&gt;of love of men&lt;br /&gt;I compose&lt;br /&gt;this for you&lt;br /&gt;agreeable handsomeness&lt;br /&gt;like some childhood tune&lt;br /&gt;I hear the birds&lt;br /&gt;chattering sweet&lt;br /&gt;I measure the pleasure&lt;br /&gt;of his meat and&lt;br /&gt;lay my head down&lt;br /&gt;to sleep my sleep.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beloved, completely&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beloved, completely&lt;br /&gt;do I adore&lt;br /&gt;the embrace&lt;br /&gt;of yielding to&lt;br /&gt;your given love&lt;br /&gt;kips of others&lt;br /&gt;are stigmatized&lt;br /&gt;against mine&lt;br /&gt;and I have no&lt;br /&gt;shame of imagination &lt;br /&gt;divine completely&lt;br /&gt;given is what I give&lt;br /&gt;sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;as light as light to mount&lt;br /&gt;the years.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fulfill my deviate delight&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fulfill my deviate delight&lt;br /&gt;sensual as is so night&lt;br /&gt;hurriedly speak of my love&lt;br /&gt;uneasy the furtive last&lt;br /&gt;lingers long and&lt;br /&gt;gains its vigorous&lt;br /&gt;as we sleep away&lt;br /&gt;the peace of suspect&lt;br /&gt;artiest compose&lt;br /&gt;the mattress as a rose&lt;br /&gt;the thing is still&lt;br /&gt;the thing by any other name&lt;br /&gt;meditate  on what is brought&lt;br /&gt;what distinct memories&lt;br /&gt;gave taught, combine&lt;br /&gt;our passion into one&lt;br /&gt;perceptible we&lt;br /&gt;round the night&lt;br /&gt;fashion half seen&lt;br /&gt;as a feeling seed of our love&lt;br /&gt;seed our feelings into desires&lt;br /&gt;let me not be unfulfilled&lt;br /&gt;sometimes it hurts&lt;br /&gt;to say I am yours&lt;br /&gt;you are mine&lt;br /&gt;remember the lines&lt;br /&gt;of my face there&lt;br /&gt;is a map of memories there.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;completely in despair&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;completely in despair&lt;br /&gt;I spare my lips&lt;br /&gt;the hurt of your kiss&lt;br /&gt;embrace my wanted desires&lt;br /&gt;there is still time&lt;br /&gt;time's sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;is stigmatized in light&lt;br /&gt;this is the Wednesday&lt;br /&gt;morning that I give to you&lt;br /&gt;what have you got to loose&lt;br /&gt;but delusions of flying away&lt;br /&gt;my imagination is your to have&lt;br /&gt;for I seek your kiss&lt;br /&gt;seeking not to miss&lt;br /&gt;seeking is mine says the lord&lt;br /&gt;not to completely miss the risk&lt;br /&gt;of what love can do to me and you.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beloved man&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beloved man&lt;br /&gt;yes I can&lt;br /&gt;loose my lost&lt;br /&gt;sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;sing with me&lt;br /&gt;come onto the stage&lt;br /&gt;in the theater where&lt;br /&gt;our love plays&lt;br /&gt;out the acts&lt;br /&gt;of chattering morality&lt;br /&gt;handsomeness is as&lt;br /&gt;handsome men do&lt;br /&gt;do you find me&lt;br /&gt;agreeable of my tongue's language&lt;br /&gt;do you see beyond&lt;br /&gt;my skin and the verses&lt;br /&gt;of my pleasure&lt;br /&gt;darling be mine&lt;br /&gt;like some candy heart&lt;br /&gt;at Valentine&lt;br /&gt;I am a choose&lt;br /&gt;cut of meat&lt;br /&gt;a citizen of loving men&lt;br /&gt;I agreeable as is the sea&lt;br /&gt;that birthed me&lt;br /&gt;within my mother's womb&lt;br /&gt;to me are esteemed&lt;br /&gt;as one who I should love&lt;br /&gt;just because your&lt;br /&gt;beauty moves my loin&lt;br /&gt;I touch you and catch fire&lt;br /&gt;I ride like riding the wave&lt;br /&gt;upon which is played&lt;br /&gt;no refutes of rejections&lt;br /&gt;I and Pink Floyd are&lt;br /&gt;wishing that you was here&lt;br /&gt;to strawberry letter 22&lt;br /&gt;and do me pleasure&lt;br /&gt;clandestinely I sought&lt;br /&gt;you out of your hole&lt;br /&gt;you holding on tight&lt;br /&gt;as white on rice&lt;br /&gt;as black as walnuts&lt;br /&gt;as if Eric Clapton&lt;br /&gt;is the forever men&lt;br /&gt;you finessing man&lt;br /&gt;of my hearty heart&lt;br /&gt;how many times&lt;br /&gt;must I say I love you&lt;br /&gt;when the stage is played&lt;br /&gt;in the theater of Sidon&lt;br /&gt;400 A D three to three&lt;br /&gt;you to me want you&lt;br /&gt;be my all over man&lt;br /&gt;rebel man rebel man&lt;br /&gt;shall I all over you&lt;br /&gt;with love with&lt;br /&gt;leading love like&lt;br /&gt;Gods in the house of sex&lt;br /&gt;or lords going down&lt;br /&gt;on the crown head&lt;br /&gt;little Feat got nothing&lt;br /&gt;on me I am innocent&lt;br /&gt;of being a Dixie chicken&lt;br /&gt;this is so true of&lt;br /&gt;both me and you here&lt;br /&gt;in dark town St. Louis&lt;br /&gt;here completely undone&lt;br /&gt;embrace the cold&lt;br /&gt;of the setting sun&lt;br /&gt;once I was lost in time&lt;br /&gt;now with you&lt;br /&gt;divinely at my side&lt;br /&gt;sick sensual designers&lt;br /&gt;are slick as ice of&lt;br /&gt;love's have not&lt;br /&gt;drip and drip to drop&lt;br /&gt;there is an antiquity&lt;br /&gt;in the miracles of your eyes&lt;br /&gt;and I am a sensual pagan&lt;br /&gt;of full flesh designer&lt;br /&gt;the temple is ready&lt;br /&gt;for the worship the&lt;br /&gt;enthusiasms of the crowd&lt;br /&gt;the theories of Maximus&lt;br /&gt;someday will fall&lt;br /&gt;overheard frequent&lt;br /&gt;conversations falls&lt;br /&gt;from the wall the&lt;br /&gt;manifested greatness&lt;br /&gt;is none to clever at all&lt;br /&gt;here is my uneasy&lt;br /&gt;result, here mine&lt;br /&gt;church of Nicóimedeia&lt;br /&gt;reverence is forsaken&lt;br /&gt;and the piety of&lt;br /&gt;Christians are never&lt;br /&gt;admired without pity&lt;br /&gt;the corn hog is rooting&lt;br /&gt;in the wise soil&lt;br /&gt;of the soul and uneasy&lt;br /&gt;I go by scriptures&lt;br /&gt;never before told&lt;br /&gt;who rides upon the back&lt;br /&gt;of the church, who&lt;br /&gt;in uproar reeds&lt;br /&gt;who the pagan please&lt;br /&gt;the greeks and still&lt;br /&gt;have no God to meet.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;be valiant who fought&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;be valiant who fought&lt;br /&gt;full not for glory&lt;br /&gt;blameless is the cost&lt;br /&gt;of all things holy&lt;br /&gt;boast your might&lt;br /&gt;and our nation strives&lt;br /&gt;piss eyed into the wind&lt;br /&gt;when you cry&lt;br /&gt;turn, turn your back&lt;br /&gt;on the holy lie&lt;br /&gt;and catch the tears&lt;br /&gt;that I cry&lt;br /&gt;valiant, marvelous as one&lt;br /&gt;who loves the fuck&lt;br /&gt;of brother's cum&lt;br /&gt;it is writ in water&lt;br /&gt;that such men as I&lt;br /&gt;turn tail not to victory&lt;br /&gt;when the victorious is done&lt;br /&gt;hear my words and hark my deeds&lt;br /&gt;the grave at last is at peace&lt;br /&gt;Daos and Critolaos&lt;br /&gt;fear not the weak&lt;br /&gt;and weak no lost love&lt;br /&gt;to keep their peace&lt;br /&gt;the fall of leaves&lt;br /&gt;is windy as spring&lt;br /&gt;and Achaean is dressed&lt;br /&gt;for Lathyrus to meet&lt;br /&gt;the meat of love&lt;br /&gt;is roasting on the spit&lt;br /&gt;the seventh year&lt;br /&gt;is dying still&lt;br /&gt;turn your fought&lt;br /&gt;into the wind&lt;br /&gt;and hear the fall&lt;br /&gt;of glory falling still&lt;br /&gt;valiant men who&lt;br /&gt;loves the men&lt;br /&gt;they will say of you&lt;br /&gt;that your love sin&lt;br /&gt;but boast against&lt;br /&gt;all their lies&lt;br /&gt;and be a man&lt;br /&gt;willing to die.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In despair&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In despair&lt;br /&gt;I cast the&lt;br /&gt;leaves from myself&lt;br /&gt;like years dying&lt;br /&gt;without a cure&lt;br /&gt;lost forever&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to save&lt;br /&gt;the night from&lt;br /&gt;the approach of day&lt;br /&gt;the summer from&lt;br /&gt;the delusion of spring&lt;br /&gt;the stigma stigmatized&lt;br /&gt;sounds of the storms&lt;br /&gt;that rings the globe&lt;br /&gt;completely am I a son&lt;br /&gt;seeking lips' fold of gold&lt;br /&gt;completely wanted&lt;br /&gt;by only the no ones&lt;br /&gt;sensual delight is&lt;br /&gt;fading fast&lt;br /&gt;only time has&lt;br /&gt;time to last.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dig deep into my heart&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dig deep into my heart&lt;br /&gt;seek you the folds of my lips&lt;br /&gt;never be and never be&lt;br /&gt;the wanting saving of me&lt;br /&gt;love lost linger and lost love&lt;br /&gt;sways night's sweet darkness&lt;br /&gt;into the bilker’s day&lt;br /&gt;the die is cast&lt;br /&gt;the cold unfolds&lt;br /&gt;the leaves dead in color&lt;br /&gt;are growing on still&lt;br /&gt;on the tree still they holds&lt;br /&gt;such is me such foretold&lt;br /&gt;the wind is lost&lt;br /&gt;in the cities now&lt;br /&gt;the doubt is the cost&lt;br /&gt;of the shame you save&lt;br /&gt;the ring around the rosy&lt;br /&gt;has no end it spiral where it lay&lt;br /&gt;where it begins and ends.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The skin of my&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The skin of my&lt;br /&gt;life's journey&lt;br /&gt;will be forgot&lt;br /&gt;by me first&lt;br /&gt;and you last&lt;br /&gt;time sucks&lt;br /&gt;the sand &lt;br /&gt;from the glass&lt;br /&gt;time is a crank&lt;br /&gt;of tiny villages&lt;br /&gt;no suburbs true&lt;br /&gt;only the finest&lt;br /&gt;olive oil smooths&lt;br /&gt;time scent&lt;br /&gt;the leaves of the trees&lt;br /&gt;with rusty colors&lt;br /&gt;too real as not&lt;br /&gt;to be believe&lt;br /&gt;time leaves&lt;br /&gt;but leave nothing&lt;br /&gt;undone, time&lt;br /&gt;has a son called God&lt;br /&gt;the crowd jostles&lt;br /&gt;to be let into heaven&lt;br /&gt;and set at the feet&lt;br /&gt;of the victorious palace&lt;br /&gt;where God ace&lt;br /&gt;his ace-boo-coo&lt;br /&gt;and knock about&lt;br /&gt;the angels until&lt;br /&gt;they are befuddle&lt;br /&gt;they love it that-a way&lt;br /&gt;they hurls&lt;br /&gt;gigantic madness&lt;br /&gt;in between the inbreeding  &lt;br /&gt;of the night and the day&lt;br /&gt;the streets are crying&lt;br /&gt;for fresh soil of concrete&lt;br /&gt;the parade amble&lt;br /&gt;down the sleeping street&lt;br /&gt;the music of medley&lt;br /&gt;is rolling on the tree&lt;br /&gt;pull me into you&lt;br /&gt;let me slip in&lt;br /&gt;give me shatter&lt;br /&gt;I have frankincense&lt;br /&gt;and gum stolen&lt;br /&gt;from the manger&lt;br /&gt;of a new born son&lt;br /&gt;of the later day shopping&lt;br /&gt;center the clouds are&lt;br /&gt;sawing at the sky&lt;br /&gt;and chicken little&lt;br /&gt;refuse to die&lt;br /&gt;little boy blue&lt;br /&gt;sings the blues&lt;br /&gt;with a red slay&lt;br /&gt;he scent his hair&lt;br /&gt;with the scent&lt;br /&gt;of Antony of Greece&lt;br /&gt;who wear a village&lt;br /&gt;in his lapel.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I am lenient&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am lenient&lt;br /&gt;I am annihilated&lt;br /&gt;as one of the who&lt;br /&gt;who hold the pen&lt;br /&gt;I am Constantinople&lt;br /&gt;of the triumph men&lt;br /&gt;esteemed with words&lt;br /&gt;I beg you to let in&lt;br /&gt;my preparations absurd&lt;br /&gt;yes this is true&lt;br /&gt;but those around you&lt;br /&gt;are up and at it&lt;br /&gt;to no good good&lt;br /&gt;hear me writing&lt;br /&gt;the clicks of my keys&lt;br /&gt;is a rhythm of the beat&lt;br /&gt; of the dance of my finger&lt;br /&gt;hear me writing the truth&lt;br /&gt;as it is seldom seen of&lt;br /&gt;goat hair wine-wasp and&lt;br /&gt;bony thin branches of wings&lt;br /&gt;the mind fly come&lt;br /&gt;roll with me&lt;br /&gt;then gigantic and the feet a toe&lt;br /&gt;are sweet in stew&lt;br /&gt;and rein lock in your youth&lt;br /&gt;to little we poets we&lt;br /&gt;do not let words&lt;br /&gt;set you free&lt;br /&gt;the gab-hogs and hog-get-tot-ree&lt;br /&gt;are swimming in the poo pad&lt;br /&gt;of all our use to bes&lt;br /&gt;hear me say&lt;br /&gt;I love you u da u b&lt;br /&gt;I drop of l all the yous and your&lt;br /&gt; of your wordy souls is &lt;br /&gt;still unwritten but some day&lt;br /&gt;will be set not in stone&lt;br /&gt;if you do not poem&lt;br /&gt;your way through the trees&lt;br /&gt;where little&lt;br /&gt; mart Riot if Window lane&lt;br /&gt;is cooking up a mess of &lt;br /&gt;snot noise in brine and pee&lt;br /&gt;frank are my words&lt;br /&gt;on the tip of my tongue&lt;br /&gt;bill are my thoughts&lt;br /&gt;of the day to come&lt;br /&gt;only idiots live&lt;br /&gt;within the poem&lt;br /&gt;skinny things with lost birth&lt;br /&gt;save for day maybe hour&lt;br /&gt;once born they lay like&lt;br /&gt;frozen flowers&lt;br /&gt;waiting for you to break&lt;br /&gt;them in a thousand&lt;br /&gt;and that Shaky baby&lt;br /&gt;or shakeabilly will&lt;br /&gt;his rimes is the dying words&lt;br /&gt;of always dying time&lt;br /&gt;the poet are reeling&lt;br /&gt;in the sun with the&lt;br /&gt;moon as a fish line&lt;br /&gt;and all are dying&lt;br /&gt;just because there&lt;br /&gt;is nothing else to do&lt;br /&gt;let the poets woo&lt;br /&gt;let them take and give&lt;br /&gt;let them feel the feel&lt;br /&gt;of you coming in&lt;br /&gt;do not let the priest ride&lt;br /&gt;beyond a little tune&lt;br /&gt;played on the tree bark&lt;br /&gt;do not give them&lt;br /&gt;a perfect pitch&lt;br /&gt;do not give them&lt;br /&gt;you only soulful heart&lt;br /&gt;for they in their ways&lt;br /&gt;are all up to no good&lt;br /&gt;at lease not something&lt;br /&gt;as high as heaven&lt;br /&gt;smooth me with ink&lt;br /&gt;from my pen let the&lt;br /&gt;symbols in within&lt;br /&gt;let the Jon of DE Arc&lt;br /&gt;free the slaves&lt;br /&gt;who are chained&lt;br /&gt;still chained to the graves&lt;br /&gt;as if heaven is in the doorway&lt;br /&gt;to wherein the kin&lt;br /&gt;of men are hustlers&lt;br /&gt;waiting to be paid&lt;br /&gt;Jesus Christ, Christ!&lt;br /&gt;me true and take away&lt;br /&gt;the last perhaps of my youth&lt;br /&gt;i am as old as man made sin&lt;br /&gt;i am bold as prostration&lt;br /&gt;before the bleeding heart&lt;br /&gt;I am torn apart by my pen&lt;br /&gt;that turns on me&lt;br /&gt;and make me speak things&lt;br /&gt;that have set heaven and all its host&lt;br /&gt;against me with mocking words&lt;br /&gt;within me the angels &lt;br /&gt;are having a party&lt;br /&gt;within the because&lt;br /&gt;of what i do do i sleep&lt;br /&gt;like living off of your youth&lt;br /&gt;O hear the bells that tells&lt;br /&gt;the time in sounds round and clear&lt;br /&gt;as falling rime in the ear&lt;br /&gt;I am Lazaro come from the dead&lt;br /&gt;I whisper into the ear of Satan&lt;br /&gt;because God told me to do&lt;br /&gt;I slit open youth to find the young&lt;br /&gt;I am my own happy moment&lt;br /&gt;of no one&lt;br /&gt;promises and imbecilities&lt;br /&gt;are still good waiting&lt;br /&gt;to be spent on man's misfortune&lt;br /&gt;and nobble men are knocking on the door&lt;br /&gt;at the last moment the bishop succeeds&lt;br /&gt;to write on the bible with his dick&lt;br /&gt;or a prayer in piss&lt;br /&gt;and sucks the sucking&lt;br /&gt;of the choir boy boy's prick&lt;br /&gt;hear my words hear them clear&lt;br /&gt;as bells of balls and tall&lt;br /&gt;talk of they have&lt;br /&gt;not the power to&lt;br /&gt;clean the sinful lips.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The shear flesh&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shear flesh&lt;br /&gt;was still breading its bleed&lt;br /&gt;and the afternoon&lt;br /&gt;is running red&lt;br /&gt;pass my lips&lt;br /&gt;is beauty's shame&lt;br /&gt;I took a leak into&lt;br /&gt;every ideal flesh&lt;br /&gt;hark the heal&lt;br /&gt;hurled into my pocket&lt;br /&gt;the angels sings&lt;br /&gt;glory to the new born thing&lt;br /&gt;that man can make&lt;br /&gt;of his reality&lt;br /&gt;little shared save for zoos&lt;br /&gt;they there we here&lt;br /&gt;little survive he in mine&lt;br /&gt;rats and racoons&lt;br /&gt;possum and homeless cats&lt;br /&gt;sleeping crows and black birds&lt;br /&gt;sparrow and barn owls&lt;br /&gt;bees and all nature's matter&lt;br /&gt;of things that be&lt;br /&gt;in and of earth the mother&lt;br /&gt;strong that will&lt;br /&gt;do man some powerfully wrongs&lt;br /&gt;killing and a killing&lt;br /&gt;kicking the can&lt;br /&gt;clean kill is the&lt;br /&gt;marksmanship of man&lt;br /&gt;the poet is 58 last&lt;br /&gt;he touched the keys&lt;br /&gt;the derisive dawn&lt;br /&gt;has a heavenly ring&lt;br /&gt;and I piss on&lt;br /&gt;my sheer love of man&lt;br /&gt;he come and he came again&lt;br /&gt;the afternoon is&lt;br /&gt;a historian of sins&lt;br /&gt;he laid and laid the rot&lt;br /&gt;he tired the night&lt;br /&gt;into twenty-none knots&lt;br /&gt;the sofa sits by the window&lt;br /&gt;dreaming that someday&lt;br /&gt;she will be a couch&lt;br /&gt;queen Ann fine legs&lt;br /&gt;east lake clutter of trim&lt;br /&gt;fit for a black man&lt;br /&gt;and who this&lt;br /&gt;black be who is he&lt;br /&gt;hark the Harlan angels sing&lt;br /&gt;God of birthed&lt;br /&gt;by the black man's king&lt;br /&gt;I can barely forget to forget&lt;br /&gt;something that itches me&lt;br /&gt;I have passed on love&lt;br /&gt;like giving head in bed&lt;br /&gt;of lit candles&lt;br /&gt;glow of flesh and mercy mild&lt;br /&gt;God had birth&lt;br /&gt;the black man's child&lt;br /&gt;poets slip things in&lt;br /&gt;into tight holes&lt;br /&gt;and cramp corners of rats&lt;br /&gt;like that what I pass&lt;br /&gt;with this poem&lt;br /&gt;is time not a clock&lt;br /&gt;no such artificial as all that&lt;br /&gt;I ware no watch&lt;br /&gt;to measure the passing&lt;br /&gt;of my life&lt;br /&gt;need none other then&lt;br /&gt;the sun the stars in&lt;br /&gt;monotonous colored’s dark sky&lt;br /&gt;in St. Louis the night is gray&lt;br /&gt;the darkness is all gone&lt;br /&gt;miles away man made&lt;br /&gt;children grow&lt;br /&gt;with no wonder of seeing&lt;br /&gt;all the stars no field trip to&lt;br /&gt;but open a Mall&lt;br /&gt;and the yellow buses are there&lt;br /&gt;where is the last Lord&lt;br /&gt;where the birth in the shopping cart&lt;br /&gt;in the park do the&lt;br /&gt;babe be this lost and unwanted&lt;br /&gt;he or she this brother or sister&lt;br /&gt;to hasty how now the blue cow can cane the come&lt;br /&gt;and lay me down&lt;br /&gt;my golden crown for I&lt;br /&gt;am Ricky McGee so say me&lt;br /&gt;poets openly say of me&lt;br /&gt;he was a poet as&lt;br /&gt;Greyhark said&lt;br /&gt;worthy to ware the black betray&lt;br /&gt;read in the eminent&lt;br /&gt;and you will be set free&lt;br /&gt;the ideal Flesh of Jesus&lt;br /&gt;shoulder a tree or river&lt;br /&gt;as muddied ad the Mississippi&lt;br /&gt;Jesus is as handsome as figure&lt;br /&gt;tied in a beauty knot&lt;br /&gt;of we being unable&lt;br /&gt;to live in the past&lt;br /&gt;and we who willfully by &lt;br /&gt;blind fate follow to the grave&lt;br /&gt;the entire devotion of who we be&lt;br /&gt;is long lost to even me&lt;br /&gt;the ideal hour&lt;br /&gt;approaches fast&lt;br /&gt;even time&lt;br /&gt;forgets to last&lt;br /&gt;sheer earth&lt;br /&gt;have no conscious&lt;br /&gt;and without it&lt;br /&gt;consciousness birth no son&lt;br /&gt;the afternoon is undone&lt;br /&gt;lived out to it's last imminent&lt;br /&gt;the lips plays the fiddle&lt;br /&gt;it the passing of the wine&lt;br /&gt;times for a blunt to rest&lt;br /&gt;this poetry driving mind&lt;br /&gt;the passing of the wine&lt;br /&gt;is split from the vine&lt;br /&gt;time is a most percussionist&lt;br /&gt;killer yet none&lt;br /&gt;can kill time.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rick James&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rick James&lt;br /&gt;was the first&lt;br /&gt;black-white man&lt;br /&gt;I ever heard of&lt;br /&gt;or was it Shy Stone&lt;br /&gt;of Billy Preston&lt;br /&gt;pressing the Beatles into&lt;br /&gt;the grove&lt;br /&gt;never in the flesh I&lt;br /&gt;ever knew but once&lt;br /&gt;had a talk with&lt;br /&gt;Jim Brown buying&lt;br /&gt;disposable shaving razors&lt;br /&gt;in a Denver Woolworth&lt;br /&gt;once talked with&lt;br /&gt;Baldwin at a book signing&lt;br /&gt;and Walter Cronkite&lt;br /&gt;at a church father and son&lt;br /&gt;dinner my dad never there&lt;br /&gt;big mama’s brother&lt;br /&gt;uncle locust took me&lt;br /&gt;Rick James had the funk in him&lt;br /&gt;he was freaky&lt;br /&gt;in many ways&lt;br /&gt;free basing his needle name maybe&lt;br /&gt;my main man, my might&lt;br /&gt;free basting the grayness&lt;br /&gt;of a city's night&lt;br /&gt;the clouds assiduous assault the sky&lt;br /&gt;the power lines are running&lt;br /&gt;out of time, crows gather&lt;br /&gt;and struck their stuff&lt;br /&gt;and shits into the river&lt;br /&gt;of our rushing&lt;br /&gt;lust lusty in me&lt;br /&gt;as Whitman in St. Louis&lt;br /&gt;to visit his brother&lt;br /&gt;who lives down the way&lt;br /&gt;and the son of the adding&lt;br /&gt;machines writes here&lt;br /&gt;in the dirt with a tree stick&lt;br /&gt;trunk rules my rotting tongue&lt;br /&gt;just to say here lies Dave the don king&lt;br /&gt;the freaky labor&lt;br /&gt;of all his days.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Youth is ablaze&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Youth is ablaze&lt;br /&gt;with being young&lt;br /&gt;its amusement into&lt;br /&gt;the name of creamy cum&lt;br /&gt;into its activity&lt;br /&gt;what is won, the birth&lt;br /&gt;of a daughter&lt;br /&gt;or son, ask me&lt;br /&gt;who is he&lt;br /&gt;this vulgar construct&lt;br /&gt;of watery day&lt;br /&gt;detestable in his needs&lt;br /&gt;to deceive the deceiver&lt;br /&gt;the day is in training&lt;br /&gt;to be your own tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;the statue is ivory and &lt;br /&gt;gold the tumble of the tremble&lt;br /&gt;are full of holy holes&lt;br /&gt;and propel conduct is no more&lt;br /&gt;little however it be so&lt;br /&gt;the talking tongue&lt;br /&gt;are salts of sores&lt;br /&gt;the knavish lad&lt;br /&gt;bend forward his back&lt;br /&gt;in loving motion the&lt;br /&gt;prick attacks&lt;br /&gt;it is not enough&lt;br /&gt;the poet's word&lt;br /&gt;to run around the words that run&lt;br /&gt;already the day is baked in clay&lt;br /&gt;already the young waits&lt;br /&gt;on another slacken but of fun&lt;br /&gt;that desires the flesh of the young&lt;br /&gt;love torn my lorn ablaze the night&lt;br /&gt;and beautiful black men&lt;br /&gt;fills all me sight limited&lt;br /&gt;by the city's grayness of night&lt;br /&gt;the city waits for&lt;br /&gt;the amusements of night&lt;br /&gt;and darkness flings itself&lt;br /&gt;into the business end of day&lt;br /&gt;the general employee&lt;br /&gt;have not been paid&lt;br /&gt;mankind can not do without&lt;br /&gt;his slaves, sexual or of the soul&lt;br /&gt;he dash his wreckage of words&lt;br /&gt;he dash  his work of words&lt;br /&gt;into every hole&lt;br /&gt;such a sin have it always been&lt;br /&gt;never one to sin no more&lt;br /&gt;the moon is still gray&lt;br /&gt;monotonous and some did&lt;br /&gt;will fall but not tonight&lt;br /&gt;as you bed your dreams&lt;br /&gt;for the desires of the flesh&lt;br /&gt;isn't always clean&lt;br /&gt;voluptuousness I find&lt;br /&gt;in your name&lt;br /&gt;figure your lust with&lt;br /&gt;my sexual guns&lt;br /&gt;possesses is the last&lt;br /&gt;lustful way that beautiful&lt;br /&gt;blacks men knows hot to play.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I have seen him&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have seen him&lt;br /&gt;regularly in the tavern&lt;br /&gt;slipping his run and coke&lt;br /&gt;entirely unknown&lt;br /&gt;to who I be slowly&lt;br /&gt;I do approach&lt;br /&gt;manly figure is he&lt;br /&gt;suspicious is his&lt;br /&gt;manly needs&lt;br /&gt;I understood precisely&lt;br /&gt;he that gave no change&lt;br /&gt;to any black man such as me&lt;br /&gt;and still I approach on&lt;br /&gt;to his side where&lt;br /&gt;on the bar he rest his arm&lt;br /&gt;a steel gray a pleasing smile&lt;br /&gt;that pleasure my ends&lt;br /&gt;dark curry hair&lt;br /&gt;as wild as I desire it&lt;br /&gt;I ask, is it lust&lt;br /&gt;that slick your mind&lt;br /&gt;is it union that I desire&lt;br /&gt;naturally I am&lt;br /&gt;not of your kind&lt;br /&gt;and you insignificance&lt;br /&gt;is plainly known&lt;br /&gt;that black man&lt;br /&gt;have the oldest soul?&lt;br /&gt;I suffer no flesh&lt;br /&gt;no persistent desires&lt;br /&gt;to touch me is to&lt;br /&gt;set yourself afire&lt;br /&gt;I am the first Adam&lt;br /&gt;to an Adam born&lt;br /&gt;I am the union&lt;br /&gt;between the moon and the sun&lt;br /&gt;I betray no God and then &lt;br /&gt;I am still only a man&lt;br /&gt;entrance into my world&lt;br /&gt;is but an understood thing&lt;br /&gt;before you sat  your denial&lt;br /&gt;sit and enter me&lt;br /&gt;as if you wish&lt;br /&gt;to entertain the ideal&lt;br /&gt;that I will not go about&lt;br /&gt;exposing your disastrous&lt;br /&gt;scandals that you keep&lt;br /&gt;just below the something&lt;br /&gt;of your dreams&lt;br /&gt;three weeks did I woo&lt;br /&gt;and not a kiss did he spare&lt;br /&gt;still I suffer not&lt;br /&gt;his own weariness&lt;br /&gt;until the time I last saw him&lt;br /&gt;I did not look to see&lt;br /&gt;if he was still sick&lt;br /&gt;with lust and longing&lt;br /&gt;for a black man to fuck&lt;br /&gt;beware of he who quickly&lt;br /&gt;expose his indifference&lt;br /&gt;by way of the entrance&lt;br /&gt;made by words&lt;br /&gt;still comes the night&lt;br /&gt;of bar fights&lt;br /&gt;and dark drunk men&lt;br /&gt;made by the poetic word&lt;br /&gt;that I woo to get in&lt;br /&gt;the night regularly without a fight.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The amateur&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The amateur&lt;br /&gt;is still true&lt;br /&gt;the finished painting&lt;br /&gt;done by a youth&lt;br /&gt;his details is loose&lt;br /&gt;he wares a wet lie&lt;br /&gt;of lives his open collar&lt;br /&gt;a gate =way to&lt;br /&gt;the forest of his bare chest&lt;br /&gt;the temple of his beauty&lt;br /&gt;his hair mannered&lt;br /&gt;completely wild&lt;br /&gt;with waves&lt;br /&gt;study the lines&lt;br /&gt;of my face&lt;br /&gt;right temple dent&lt;br /&gt;the face like dimples&lt;br /&gt;of the strongest race&lt;br /&gt;his lips like lanes&lt;br /&gt;leading to yesterday&lt;br /&gt;paint him in gray&lt;br /&gt;rose color his face&lt;br /&gt;his chest invites&lt;br /&gt;his shirt ironed&lt;br /&gt;his neck like a&lt;br /&gt;thumb of a still&lt;br /&gt;living tree&lt;br /&gt;entirely the perfect&lt;br /&gt;years fall's leaves&lt;br /&gt;itself away&lt;br /&gt;the picture is done&lt;br /&gt;and his heart sways away.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Retort my religion lust&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retort my religion lust&lt;br /&gt;concerning my beliefs&lt;br /&gt;that god is a she&lt;br /&gt;understand the&lt;br /&gt;empty-headed Julian of Greece&lt;br /&gt;clever man that will not&lt;br /&gt;condemn the ludicrous man&lt;br /&gt;who in his religious way&lt;br /&gt;will not wait&lt;br /&gt;till kingdom come&lt;br /&gt;such men have won&lt;br /&gt;the understood&lt;br /&gt;condemnation of any son&lt;br /&gt;go I yes go&lt;br /&gt;annihilate the sun&lt;br /&gt;that is the weight of&lt;br /&gt;the motion of all that&lt;br /&gt;you have won the booties&lt;br /&gt;of wars the friend's benefit&lt;br /&gt;of the kill you read into it&lt;br /&gt;as a under-christian&lt;br /&gt;like under-cover brothers&lt;br /&gt;in fro and dashiki&lt;br /&gt;and ludicrous love&lt;br /&gt;sent from above&lt;br /&gt;mined from below&lt;br /&gt;the annihilation is cold&lt;br /&gt;as day old gold&lt;br /&gt;now concerning you&lt;br /&gt;religion beliefs or your God&lt;br /&gt;or Hermeteles or me&lt;br /&gt;sleep a short while&lt;br /&gt;notice often the swell&lt;br /&gt;and ideal love is&lt;br /&gt;grief-grief-stricken  &lt;br /&gt;with lust receive&lt;br /&gt;the epitaph&lt;br /&gt;your cousin in love&lt;br /&gt;the last days are&lt;br /&gt;spited into my color&lt;br /&gt;and we grow together&lt;br /&gt;we deeply grieve&lt;br /&gt;we resentment of&lt;br /&gt;all that is weak&lt;br /&gt;of souls entirely&lt;br /&gt;I have stolen&lt;br /&gt;from Mary Lou&lt;br /&gt;that Mary of God&lt;br /&gt;Aristodemes is cold&lt;br /&gt;as a satiated snow&lt;br /&gt;the end is near&lt;br /&gt;and during our last days&lt;br /&gt;of the first that waits within&lt;br /&gt;a poet once told me with&lt;br /&gt;his red weepings of green and yellow&lt;br /&gt;buying the market place&lt;br /&gt;on a dine of doing time&lt;br /&gt;as a man within his skin&lt;br /&gt;and I O yes I&lt;br /&gt;the bully bull of a boy&lt;br /&gt;did drop my draw and let it in&lt;br /&gt;he told me with hoe dead eyes&lt;br /&gt;that destine is a traitor&lt;br /&gt;and teller of lies&lt;br /&gt;he told me that&lt;br /&gt;I world rise down round the west end&lt;br /&gt;and find my south just north&lt;br /&gt;of the border and that I&lt;br /&gt;will cover with words&lt;br /&gt;the sky and that my&lt;br /&gt;friend the painter&lt;br /&gt;Steve will paint&lt;br /&gt;satisfying as I feigning of spites&lt;br /&gt;and perhaps under weed my love of him&lt;br /&gt;and all men of human's's make&lt;br /&gt;Cimon my cousin kin&lt;br /&gt;grief-stricken to his&lt;br /&gt;soul's gate waits&lt;br /&gt;by the grave stone no bigger&lt;br /&gt;then a apple skipped a&lt;br /&gt;cross the river of graves&lt;br /&gt;he waits the return of sensitive&lt;br /&gt;resentment grow, yes grow&lt;br /&gt;together deeply grow with&lt;br /&gt;all images between thee&lt;br /&gt;grow like sorrow close&lt;br /&gt;to the end grow, yes grow&lt;br /&gt;into an imagined man&lt;br /&gt;see now the taken&lt;br /&gt;henceforth malnourished&lt;br /&gt;and excuse and wild&lt;br /&gt;hair never the same&lt;br /&gt;receive me receive&lt;br /&gt;this poem as if it is&lt;br /&gt;all through one.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wanted&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanted&lt;br /&gt;a Cimon&lt;br /&gt;a handsome man&lt;br /&gt;a sensitive longing&lt;br /&gt;a king Clemenes&lt;br /&gt;in Spartan&lt;br /&gt;a demurred man&lt;br /&gt;me single Settian man&lt;br /&gt;6'2 170#&lt;br /&gt;willing to try&lt;br /&gt;all but crime&lt;br /&gt;against the soul&lt;br /&gt;will the store&lt;br /&gt;and to before&lt;br /&gt;my time die&lt;br /&gt;you Egypt&lt;br /&gt;guarantee of&lt;br /&gt;being black&lt;br /&gt;strong of thighs&lt;br /&gt;and upper back&lt;br /&gt;with your mouth&lt;br /&gt;full of rumors&lt;br /&gt;and hands full&lt;br /&gt;of doubts&lt;br /&gt;you laughed at&lt;br /&gt;but certainty&lt;br /&gt;and able to&lt;br /&gt;indifferent&lt;br /&gt;the Spartan;s pride&lt;br /&gt;all that I request&lt;br /&gt;is that you be&lt;br /&gt;who you are with your skin&lt;br /&gt;illustrious as a&lt;br /&gt;Spartan king.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Remember&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember&lt;br /&gt;the battle at&lt;br /&gt;Actium of Sam&lt;br /&gt;that liberated&lt;br /&gt;the Romans&lt;br /&gt;of Antony's ruinous&lt;br /&gt;Caesar of Cum&lt;br /&gt;the conqueror&lt;br /&gt;are glorious&lt;br /&gt;the Milyrapest military&lt;br /&gt;enterprise is&lt;br /&gt;beautiful with&lt;br /&gt;political exploits.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;let me build&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;let me build&lt;br /&gt;within your heart&lt;br /&gt;a bridge never&lt;br /&gt;torn apart&lt;br /&gt;step up into my heart&lt;br /&gt;I wait for you&lt;br /&gt;to do as you do&lt;br /&gt;to love me true&lt;br /&gt;we the two who woo.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'll be your&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll be your&lt;br /&gt;lady in love tonight&lt;br /&gt;if you want me to&lt;br /&gt;I'll be all for you&lt;br /&gt;the one is so hard to find&lt;br /&gt;one and one will always be two&lt;br /&gt;as our love is true&lt;br /&gt;make your love to my mind&lt;br /&gt;and our bodies will follow&lt;br /&gt;no other need bother&lt;br /&gt;they don't have a clue&lt;br /&gt;about me and you&lt;br /&gt;I'll be your lady in love tonight&lt;br /&gt;if you want me to&lt;br /&gt;it's all up to you&lt;br /&gt;stand by my side&lt;br /&gt;in light and in darkness&lt;br /&gt;I will witness that it is you&lt;br /&gt;the one true lover&lt;br /&gt;and how you do.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kleitos found&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kleitos found&lt;br /&gt;morally sympathetic&lt;br /&gt;exhausted with&lt;br /&gt;love making of his man&lt;br /&gt;critically he woos&lt;br /&gt;the servant who&lt;br /&gt;raised him when&lt;br /&gt;he took the boy in&lt;br /&gt;Kleitos trembles&lt;br /&gt;within his youth&lt;br /&gt;his terrible anxiety&lt;br /&gt;is that he love to deeply&lt;br /&gt;that he worship the turning&lt;br /&gt;of all Christians one by one&lt;br /&gt;they fall from the cross&lt;br /&gt;and stigmata bleed with the mind&lt;br /&gt;of an idiot with pancake eyes&lt;br /&gt;secretly he loves&lt;br /&gt;like living on the edge&lt;br /&gt;kleitos is to sympathetic toward&lt;br /&gt;youths he have found in Greece&lt;br /&gt;in that learning all of which&lt;br /&gt;he exhausted like Padma&lt;br /&gt;on leave to his holy land&lt;br /&gt;Kleitos met a young actor&lt;br /&gt;in an Oneal play&lt;br /&gt;the fever that decimated&lt;br /&gt;his loving ways told him not to&lt;br /&gt;trust anything straggle or&lt;br /&gt;sweeter then pure honey&lt;br /&gt;illustrious in his make.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aged servant&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aged servant&lt;br /&gt;aged angel&lt;br /&gt;on his last wing&lt;br /&gt;critically ill with&lt;br /&gt;the sickness of man&lt;br /&gt;B.B .King has lost his thrill&lt;br /&gt;a learning upbringing&lt;br /&gt;a found excellence&lt;br /&gt;exhaustion lift in his will&lt;br /&gt;the idiot child is blessed&lt;br /&gt;by the bite that bites down&lt;br /&gt;but does not kill&lt;br /&gt;parental parent compassion to give&lt;br /&gt;worship of man by angel&lt;br /&gt;will in the end kill one or the other&lt;br /&gt;worship the anxiety&lt;br /&gt;that old actors play&lt;br /&gt;the true life to live this way&lt;br /&gt;old mark Mack&lt;br /&gt;is dressed in gray-black&lt;br /&gt;like the lack of darkness&lt;br /&gt;in the city of the graves&lt;br /&gt;she jumped the fence&lt;br /&gt;for $52.00 of scent&lt;br /&gt;she jumped so high that&lt;br /&gt;she reached the upper room&lt;br /&gt;in the sky and she found out&lt;br /&gt;that only lost angels do not cry&lt;br /&gt;she jumped so high into the sky&lt;br /&gt;that she needed an old fashion angel's cry&lt;br /&gt;that she never came back&lt;br /&gt;till the 16th of July&lt;br /&gt;care to carve my cares for me&lt;br /&gt;cure my ills to foresee&lt;br /&gt;that the servants of God's grief&lt;br /&gt;is an Augus gull of old men wild&lt;br /&gt;who mercy away their short lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wallow me wrung&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wallow me wrung&lt;br /&gt;to brothels or tavern&lt;br /&gt;Tamides left me in the lurch&lt;br /&gt;right me epochal to acquired&lt;br /&gt;all my debaucheries are stored&lt;br /&gt;in the church smelling of&lt;br /&gt;fragrance&lt;br /&gt;it is what I possess&lt;br /&gt;abjectly the Nile&lt;br /&gt;is always wet&lt;br /&gt;as the desert advance&lt;br /&gt;Alexandria's son is shabby&lt;br /&gt;with wants constant beauty&lt;br /&gt;remains the fleshy&lt;br /&gt;part of who he be&lt;br /&gt;beauty is full of two years&lt;br /&gt;and marvelous men in between&lt;br /&gt;the fragrance and the fish.&lt;br /&gt;If all our days&lt;br /&gt;instantly the hour&lt;br /&gt;approaches handsome&lt;br /&gt;of face with his spinets&lt;br /&gt;introverts sixty pounds in a&lt;br /&gt;gambling house where&lt;br /&gt;unexpected to loose&lt;br /&gt;is no good news&lt;br /&gt;the honorable household&lt;br /&gt;is depraved with out&lt;br /&gt;of heart power and expensive&lt;br /&gt; thinking that it is at all&lt;br /&gt;that four )'clock the grave is given&lt;br /&gt;and bedrooms full of marvelous men&lt;br /&gt;spend their smokes of their cigarettes&lt;br /&gt;in rings of troublesome thoughts&lt;br /&gt;that hallo the heads&lt;br /&gt;of giving head and getting wed in bed&lt;br /&gt;mechanically the lungs takes in smoothly&lt;br /&gt;are all over our breath&lt;br /&gt;newspaper cafe  are full of empty eyes&lt;br /&gt;and presently it is since ten thirty-five&lt;br /&gt;the entire reading drinks plenty when&lt;br /&gt;the slightest doubt is a handicap&lt;br /&gt;of hardship blessing let it&lt;br /&gt;investigate let it inquire&lt;br /&gt;to reform immediately the&lt;br /&gt;radicals storms the blessings&lt;br /&gt;put up to block the way&lt;br /&gt;perhaps today we wait&lt;br /&gt;perhaps the needed ones will&lt;br /&gt;be needed&lt;br /&gt;perhaps the request will be granted&lt;br /&gt;or grand guilds bent their backs&lt;br /&gt;and shot the hole through&lt;br /&gt;possession trimmed and tanned&lt;br /&gt;rightful and minuteman&lt;br /&gt;we defined the carrying out&lt;br /&gt;of ourselves we one still in&lt;br /&gt;our demands ingenuity surgical to do&lt;br /&gt;is excesses of top seeking&lt;br /&gt;this is true and as so&lt;br /&gt;as hard as a surprise&lt;br /&gt;by love and when&lt;br /&gt;and then and this and that&lt;br /&gt;other then the precisely\propose the sacrifices of the souls&lt;br /&gt;of the last investigation&lt;br /&gt;into the everything whole.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-1867291996356123168</id><published>2011-12-11T14:14:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:14:19.291-08:00</updated><title type='text'>the woman who is a man's man</title><content type='html'>the woman who is a man's man&lt;br /&gt;the sand that pin pricks my soul&lt;br /&gt;I the bold boy&lt;br /&gt;of long ago the the&lt;br /&gt;bully boy of men soul&lt;br /&gt;the haunted day&lt;br /&gt;upon earth the rose&lt;br /&gt;growing before the door&lt;br /&gt;and will not let me in to pass&lt;br /&gt;the outer lynching&lt;br /&gt;of my suspense&lt;br /&gt;I the judgment of death&lt;br /&gt;the hours that comes&lt;br /&gt;for you is already spent&lt;br /&gt;my tortured body&lt;br /&gt;tortured by spring&lt;br /&gt; is vengeance&lt;br /&gt;hideously full of holes&lt;br /&gt;I have spent my life&lt;br /&gt;on the point of a pin&lt;br /&gt;and still the Gods that be&lt;br /&gt;will not let their blood in&lt;br /&gt;I the judgment of life&lt;br /&gt;have spent my life&lt;br /&gt;on the shore&lt;br /&gt;where the shroud of the&lt;br /&gt;harvested water is a poison&lt;br /&gt;and it brands the damaged&lt;br /&gt;with the middle passage&lt;br /&gt;for years I have decreed&lt;br /&gt;that vanity is sought and borrowed&lt;br /&gt;the flashing sails&lt;br /&gt;of the fleshes winds&lt;br /&gt;is wild with weapons and &lt;br /&gt;cocked favors high&lt;br /&gt;my dying, dying, dying&lt;br /&gt;my whole life thought&lt;br /&gt;the shore of life is my voyage&lt;br /&gt;in dead April&lt;br /&gt;my black rebellious nature&lt;br /&gt;of uneasy linguist&lt;br /&gt;who is the morning of all my morning&lt;br /&gt;come to soon&lt;br /&gt;leaps a crazy laughter&lt;br /&gt;of the stagnant water&lt;br /&gt;of black seed America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-1867291996356123168?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/1867291996356123168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=1867291996356123168' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1867291996356123168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1867291996356123168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/woman-who-is-mans-man.html' title='the woman who is a man&apos;s man'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7360625081566930757</id><published>2011-12-11T14:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:12:14.912-08:00</updated><title type='text'>with ragged individualism</title><content type='html'>with ragged individualism&lt;br /&gt;unanimity is the American way&lt;br /&gt;will the crying of the day&lt;br /&gt;the regular syphilis&lt;br /&gt;of the sexual night&lt;br /&gt;drips away&lt;br /&gt;mega men black&lt;br /&gt;as the day is long&lt;br /&gt;fuck behind the puppet your sons&lt;br /&gt;black choppers of&lt;br /&gt;the common fuck&lt;br /&gt;common blacks&lt;br /&gt;chop opportunist&lt;br /&gt;of the blood of Christ&lt;br /&gt;police pf morals&lt;br /&gt;to the washer woman's hands&lt;br /&gt;mulatto tattoo&lt;br /&gt;artiest of the flesh&lt;br /&gt;lingers by America&lt;br /&gt;my tenant God&lt;br /&gt;my landlord of my soul&lt;br /&gt;in cold water flats&lt;br /&gt;of thin holes&lt;br /&gt;conterminous of&lt;br /&gt;staving to death&lt;br /&gt;planters of commissaries and&lt;br /&gt;commodities of overseers&lt;br /&gt;of God the unpublicized&lt;br /&gt;philanderer of the&lt;br /&gt;public way&lt;br /&gt;the impoverished tide of water&lt;br /&gt;seeks down into the grave&lt;br /&gt;and all is said&lt;br /&gt;all is washed away&lt;br /&gt;none lives forever&lt;br /&gt;none is allowed to stay.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7360625081566930757?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7360625081566930757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7360625081566930757' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7360625081566930757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7360625081566930757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/with-ragged-individualism.html' title='with ragged individualism'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-793015754362516114</id><published>2011-12-11T14:11:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:11:17.097-08:00</updated><title type='text'>bedrock preachers</title><content type='html'>bedrock preachers&lt;br /&gt;honey colored black cherubic&lt;br /&gt;untouched by the&lt;br /&gt;common hand&lt;br /&gt;tongues like wolves&lt;br /&gt;riches planters&lt;br /&gt;of hell's fire revenge&lt;br /&gt;such men who speaks&lt;br /&gt;to black women&lt;br /&gt;about black bastards&lt;br /&gt;that do not fit in the night&lt;br /&gt;intervals specialists&lt;br /&gt;in the socialist of&lt;br /&gt;the lingering ghost&lt;br /&gt;of the glow&lt;br /&gt; hit it a Tap&lt;br /&gt;that ass and&lt;br /&gt;on ragging&lt;br /&gt;rig a mos roll&lt;br /&gt;men of Miguel&lt;br /&gt;with the spilled tongue&lt;br /&gt;that hanged the bastard&lt;br /&gt;that broke the Lord's word&lt;br /&gt;the blacks are aces&lt;br /&gt;in the sight of God&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-793015754362516114?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/793015754362516114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=793015754362516114' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/793015754362516114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/793015754362516114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/bedrock-preachers.html' title='bedrock preachers'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-9118905102255692302</id><published>2011-12-11T14:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:08:08.764-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What</title><content type='html'>What of the character&lt;br /&gt;of Demaratus?&lt;br /&gt;Where do Porphyry&lt;br /&gt;lies in his grave&lt;br /&gt;who is the young Sophist&lt;br /&gt;passing his days&lt;br /&gt;humiliated by the moon&lt;br /&gt;leotychides is an intriguer&lt;br /&gt;and Greece did not&lt;br /&gt;conquer their slaves&lt;br /&gt;O lovey man of wine&lt;br /&gt;the purest silver&lt;br /&gt;is a gleam in your eyes&lt;br /&gt;the priest have&lt;br /&gt;the gift of gab&lt;br /&gt;but I listen&lt;br /&gt;no more&lt;br /&gt;for the nails&lt;br /&gt;are rusting in&lt;br /&gt;the cross and&lt;br /&gt;Jason's melancholy&lt;br /&gt;is a hideous knife&lt;br /&gt;that cuts me to the core&lt;br /&gt;the art of poetry&lt;br /&gt;is my savor&lt;br /&gt;the unaware wounds&lt;br /&gt;is my drug&lt;br /&gt;I took a joint&lt;br /&gt;and blunt my breath&lt;br /&gt;as if the wine marker&lt;br /&gt;is also a bore&lt;br /&gt;plug me into the water&lt;br /&gt;Baptiste me in wine&lt;br /&gt;amorous Heracles&lt;br /&gt;is naked and I&lt;br /&gt;have trusted the excellent&lt;br /&gt;tears of his eyes&lt;br /&gt;prevail the brook and&lt;br /&gt;thyme O lovely ,am&lt;br /&gt;as handsome as a prayer&lt;br /&gt;elegant as passed time&lt;br /&gt;I too will die&lt;br /&gt;the soldiers fell&lt;br /&gt;the flowers drinks&lt;br /&gt;the amorous rain&lt;br /&gt;and many say&lt;br /&gt;with mistrusts of truth&lt;br /&gt;on their breath&lt;br /&gt;that I am insane&lt;br /&gt;O memory o leg of lamb&lt;br /&gt;O succulent center&lt;br /&gt;of my wounds&lt;br /&gt;I am I as a lovely tune&lt;br /&gt;I attempt to numb your&lt;br /&gt;sorrows of suffering&lt;br /&gt;I attempt to two the same&lt;br /&gt;the hideous drug of&lt;br /&gt;awareness is but&lt;br /&gt;a little something&lt;br /&gt;longer then my refuge&lt;br /&gt;you renowned philosophers&lt;br /&gt;Saccus of handsome faces&lt;br /&gt;destination is a joke&lt;br /&gt;played on the poor&lt;br /&gt;who endure the laudable&lt;br /&gt;Sophists&lt;br /&gt;I am the politic&lt;br /&gt;of high rememnering&lt;br /&gt;I am the tradition&lt;br /&gt;of soundings traditions&lt;br /&gt;the Epochal is my idiot&lt;br /&gt;and the Christian church&lt;br /&gt;is ostentatiously pagan&lt;br /&gt;as all religions before&lt;br /&gt;debauchery is my customer&lt;br /&gt;and handsome faces my divine delight&lt;br /&gt;I endure the mean times&lt;br /&gt;of all of my rights&lt;br /&gt;philosopher&lt;br /&gt;Padam is in Athen&lt;br /&gt;he is owned by Circe&lt;br /&gt;what of a father&lt;br /&gt;allows his only&lt;br /&gt;daughter to own&lt;br /&gt;rag doll on the bed&lt;br /&gt;that dear Kay made.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-9118905102255692302?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/9118905102255692302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=9118905102255692302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/9118905102255692302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/9118905102255692302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/what.html' title='What'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-836280526627181144</id><published>2011-12-11T14:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:07:13.100-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sit here my love</title><content type='html'>Sit here my love&lt;br /&gt;and meditate&lt;br /&gt;on the art of poetry&lt;br /&gt;desire your feelings&lt;br /&gt;as merciful things&lt;br /&gt;unfulfilled is his reply&lt;br /&gt;this figure of&lt;br /&gt;middle aged love&lt;br /&gt;beauty lives in his eyes&lt;br /&gt;as fashionable things&lt;br /&gt;I 'm perceptible round&lt;br /&gt;the hours impressions&lt;br /&gt;carved into my bones&lt;br /&gt;combine the days&lt;br /&gt;with the years&lt;br /&gt;always none gone&lt;br /&gt;I comb the hair&lt;br /&gt;of my lover&lt;br /&gt;indistinct as my lost&lt;br /&gt;the lines in his face&lt;br /&gt;are lames of memories&lt;br /&gt;and time for all&lt;br /&gt;it's forward movement&lt;br /&gt;can not catch up&lt;br /&gt;with itself&lt;br /&gt;he leaves me fed&lt;br /&gt;as a new beginning&lt;br /&gt;he fulfills my&lt;br /&gt;sexual needs&lt;br /&gt;and our bed is soft&lt;br /&gt;as plucked roses&lt;br /&gt;hurrying toward&lt;br /&gt;their birth&lt;br /&gt;the rose's hips&lt;br /&gt;are furtive&lt;br /&gt;the bed is sensual&lt;br /&gt;with delight&lt;br /&gt;the separate love&lt;br /&gt;and furtive and&lt;br /&gt;holds no doubts&lt;br /&gt;in a little while&lt;br /&gt;the bed will fall&lt;br /&gt;out of it's betrayal&lt;br /&gt;the artiest in me&lt;br /&gt;is a muse's slave&lt;br /&gt;because I will not betray&lt;br /&gt;the truth that I&lt;br /&gt;have learned by the way&lt;br /&gt;with vigorous verses&lt;br /&gt;composed of the beginnings&lt;br /&gt;I am a soothsayer&lt;br /&gt;I am a love of bores&lt;br /&gt;I am all of your beginnings&lt;br /&gt;to ask what's the cause&lt;br /&gt;I walk on somewhere&lt;br /&gt;as if it's fires of coals&lt;br /&gt;uneasily I go leaving&lt;br /&gt;prints of poems in the snow&lt;br /&gt;my fulfillment is what I gave&lt;br /&gt;my mattress is a rose&lt;br /&gt;for the imprint pg his&lt;br /&gt;form that it holds&lt;br /&gt;rose to the bee that blows&lt;br /&gt;it's nose hurriedly the hour pass&lt;br /&gt;speaking in a holy tongue&lt;br /&gt;the words are able artiest&lt;br /&gt;uttered as sensual love&lt;br /&gt;tomorrow is no beginning&lt;br /&gt;today never comes&lt;br /&gt;vigorous my verse&lt;br /&gt;will split your tongue&lt;br /&gt;I am speaks with forks&lt;br /&gt;of love time deviate&lt;br /&gt;sensual delight&lt;br /&gt;like my love&lt;br /&gt;dark as night&lt;br /&gt;as not to be seen&lt;br /&gt;without light by the whites&lt;br /&gt;separately the mattress cry&lt;br /&gt;house in love with it's foundation&lt;br /&gt;the bricks of which&lt;br /&gt;I am composed&lt;br /&gt;have holes, bubbles of air&lt;br /&gt;that furtively wares away the dawn&lt;br /&gt;the uneasy streets&lt;br /&gt;betrays the streetlights&lt;br /&gt;fads as fadding day&lt;br /&gt;dress yourself separately&lt;br /&gt;dress yourself as&lt;br /&gt;some Demaratus&lt;br /&gt;unbound, roll the&lt;br /&gt;hill up the Boulder Colorado&lt;br /&gt;of crouse I speak&lt;br /&gt;rhetorically&lt;br /&gt;none-the-less&lt;br /&gt;or less-the-none&lt;br /&gt;king Xerxes lost his son&lt;br /&gt;and none, yes none&lt;br /&gt;will be vindicated&lt;br /&gt;as God’s lost son&lt;br /&gt;the army of citizens&lt;br /&gt;insults the public way&lt;br /&gt;and the graves are&lt;br /&gt;lonely both night and day&lt;br /&gt;humble yourself&lt;br /&gt;bride the Gods&lt;br /&gt;shamelessly Aristotle&lt;br /&gt;is no enemies nor&lt;br /&gt;long lust intending&lt;br /&gt;as some airborne&lt;br /&gt;conversation over&lt;br /&gt;heard by Porphyry&lt;br /&gt;here is the great injustice&lt;br /&gt;that man was ever born&lt;br /&gt;shamelessly&lt;br /&gt;the deprived darn dart&lt;br /&gt;is the Sunday of the cause&lt;br /&gt;bloody Sunday&lt;br /&gt;bloody Monday&lt;br /&gt;count all private&lt;br /&gt;citizens as one&lt;br /&gt;publicly the feast&lt;br /&gt;with great zeal&lt;br /&gt;Xerxes will not&lt;br /&gt;kill the dawn&lt;br /&gt;in the public square&lt;br /&gt;the Christians getter&lt;br /&gt;to conquer your soul&lt;br /&gt;but be fore warned&lt;br /&gt;of their boredom&lt;br /&gt;they have no&lt;br /&gt;moments of joy&lt;br /&gt;without a thought&lt;br /&gt;of their God.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-836280526627181144?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/836280526627181144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=836280526627181144' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/836280526627181144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/836280526627181144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/sit-here-my-love.html' title='Sit here my love'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6032705209938584863</id><published>2011-12-11T14:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:06:31.827-08:00</updated><title type='text'>most diligent</title><content type='html'>most diligent&lt;br /&gt;is my love&lt;br /&gt;most scripture&lt;br /&gt;is his needs&lt;br /&gt;most difficult&lt;br /&gt;is his doubts&lt;br /&gt;that he will&lt;br /&gt;no longer love me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6032705209938584863?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6032705209938584863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6032705209938584863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6032705209938584863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6032705209938584863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/most-diligent.html' title='most diligent'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-1266627435297301351</id><published>2011-12-11T14:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:05:57.962-08:00</updated><title type='text'>flippant Byzantine</title><content type='html'>flippant Byzantine&lt;br /&gt;flippant serious matter&lt;br /&gt;diligently I cuss&lt;br /&gt;the God that did&lt;br /&gt;not give me head&lt;br /&gt;be you familiar with&lt;br /&gt;your God in a sexual way&lt;br /&gt;be you lustful before&lt;br /&gt;the grave&lt;br /&gt;the Synodical canons&lt;br /&gt;written in blood&lt;br /&gt;and the insis&lt;br /&gt;of scriptures&lt;br /&gt;the talk of the&lt;br /&gt;father and son&lt;br /&gt;is dreadfully malevolent&lt;br /&gt;as the suffering of Doukaina&lt;br /&gt;who was a bore&lt;br /&gt;composed in sextettes&lt;br /&gt;and octets and&lt;br /&gt;sonnets to amuse&lt;br /&gt;the mythological&lt;br /&gt;Peloponnese&lt;br /&gt;and Constantinople's men&lt;br /&gt;Alexander balas&lt;br /&gt;is dead by the pen&lt;br /&gt;have you heard the words”?&lt;br /&gt;The fine night wine of Antioch&lt;br /&gt;is glorified as a wrong&lt;br /&gt;as such a young rose&lt;br /&gt;as weak as Balas as&lt;br /&gt;strong as the one&lt;br /&gt;I do adore&lt;br /&gt;tomorrow is a contest prize&lt;br /&gt;and the crippled weakness&lt;br /&gt;will not die&lt;br /&gt;lovely young men&lt;br /&gt;are running out of time&lt;br /&gt;and foolish&lt;br /&gt;victory of the&lt;br /&gt;wheel of the chariot&lt;br /&gt;is rotting on the vine&lt;br /&gt;Antioch is lost&lt;br /&gt;but still glorified&lt;br /&gt;as if some adored&lt;br /&gt;tomorrow never died&lt;br /&gt;to death a second time&lt;br /&gt;ordeal your secrets&lt;br /&gt;order your prize&lt;br /&gt;the Flatterers&lt;br /&gt;are still divine&lt;br /&gt;and dreadful&lt;br /&gt;churches matters&lt;br /&gt;are diligently&lt;br /&gt;declined as&lt;br /&gt;something not&lt;br /&gt;brought as art&lt;br /&gt;something indistinct&lt;br /&gt;as faded memories&lt;br /&gt;in the hands&lt;br /&gt;of time fashions&lt;br /&gt;wares out your&lt;br /&gt;round the clock&lt;br /&gt;combine your&lt;br /&gt;doubts and successions&lt;br /&gt;leave no impressions&lt;br /&gt;imperceptible.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-1266627435297301351?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/1266627435297301351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=1266627435297301351' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1266627435297301351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1266627435297301351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/flippant-byzantine.html' title='flippant Byzantine'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-249970808062999783</id><published>2011-12-11T14:04:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:04:42.604-08:00</updated><title type='text'>here my love</title><content type='html'>here my love&lt;br /&gt;the day breaks open&lt;br /&gt;just because&lt;br /&gt;it has been&lt;br /&gt;done before.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-249970808062999783?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/249970808062999783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=249970808062999783' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/249970808062999783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/249970808062999783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/here-my-love.html' title='here my love'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7484241374109362899</id><published>2011-12-11T14:03:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:03:26.465-08:00</updated><title type='text'>old man</title><content type='html'>old man&lt;br /&gt;actor brought&lt;br /&gt;to entertain&lt;br /&gt;the young&lt;br /&gt;with your wisdom&lt;br /&gt;elder of the&lt;br /&gt;drawing room&lt;br /&gt;never come&lt;br /&gt;too soon&lt;br /&gt;you mingled&lt;br /&gt;with crinolines&lt;br /&gt;and Africa&lt;br /&gt;you who love&lt;br /&gt;the perfume&lt;br /&gt;of middle aged&lt;br /&gt;men&lt;br /&gt;recite your love&lt;br /&gt;with a sexual tune&lt;br /&gt;shall I forbearance&lt;br /&gt;your skin with&lt;br /&gt;my musk?&lt;br /&gt;My garden flower to pluck&lt;br /&gt;growing in the dark&lt;br /&gt;the darkness of your skin&lt;br /&gt;the epigrams&lt;br /&gt;euphoria is dead&lt;br /&gt;of love in his bed&lt;br /&gt;the stressing is&lt;br /&gt;not necessary&lt;br /&gt;the sacred valor&lt;br /&gt;of hidden love letters&lt;br /&gt;in a shoe box&lt;br /&gt;in the dark&lt;br /&gt;perhaps not&lt;br /&gt;fanatic shouts&lt;br /&gt;lies like leaping love&lt;br /&gt;the quatrain pleases me&lt;br /&gt;the phrases betray&lt;br /&gt;that Prometheus&lt;br /&gt;is a tragedy waiting&lt;br /&gt;to happen and he&lt;br /&gt;who is brilliantly with age roll&lt;br /&gt;the boulder up hill&lt;br /&gt;is a reminder of all my fears&lt;br /&gt;it was seven&lt;br /&gt;against Thebes&lt;br /&gt;it was Datis and&lt;br /&gt;his ranks of soldiers&lt;br /&gt;who demanded&lt;br /&gt;that time be&lt;br /&gt;put on trial&lt;br /&gt;too many poets&lt;br /&gt;are cowardice&lt;br /&gt;with their quatrains&lt;br /&gt;and rimes stressed the stressing&lt;br /&gt;a dead language&lt;br /&gt;famous for being dead&lt;br /&gt;when it is the spirited&lt;br /&gt;letters that are&lt;br /&gt; the living language&lt;br /&gt;that are forming&lt;br /&gt;within the head&lt;br /&gt;to many old men&lt;br /&gt;become stale with&lt;br /&gt;well wishing phrases&lt;br /&gt;also done down and dead&lt;br /&gt;I expect to grow old&lt;br /&gt;like Cassandra bold&lt;br /&gt;remarkable in my skin&lt;br /&gt;but now the hour is not near.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7484241374109362899?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7484241374109362899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7484241374109362899' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7484241374109362899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7484241374109362899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/old-man_11.html' title='old man'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4476514504026432863</id><published>2011-12-11T14:02:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:02:26.579-08:00</updated><title type='text'>light the dim candle</title><content type='html'>light the dim candle&lt;br /&gt;dim the light&lt;br /&gt;appropriate kindlier&lt;br /&gt;our room is in&lt;br /&gt;love tonight&lt;br /&gt;this vision revery&lt;br /&gt;immersed entirely&lt;br /&gt;the shadows are&lt;br /&gt;suggestions of&lt;br /&gt;what we can do&lt;br /&gt;disrobe the candle&lt;br /&gt;of it's low light&lt;br /&gt;appropriate thoughts&lt;br /&gt;are not allowed tonight&lt;br /&gt;legal sex has a right\&lt;br /&gt;the age is clear&lt;br /&gt;the meat to touch&lt;br /&gt;the shadow flesh&lt;br /&gt;of the fuck&lt;br /&gt;is cast into the light&lt;br /&gt;come come&lt;br /&gt;you kindlier of love&lt;br /&gt;you crackle dark&lt;br /&gt;you vision of&lt;br /&gt;the poet';s thoughts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4476514504026432863?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4476514504026432863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4476514504026432863' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4476514504026432863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4476514504026432863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/light-dim-candle.html' title='light the dim candle'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6094023610566060306</id><published>2011-12-11T14:01:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:01:28.355-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Surrounding Center</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the years of years&lt;br /&gt;the circumstances&lt;br /&gt;remembered&lt;br /&gt;the so many feelings&lt;br /&gt;surrounding our love&lt;br /&gt;just because the just&lt;br /&gt;is right to sex&lt;br /&gt;the dark people's night&lt;br /&gt;and dispel his sorrows&lt;br /&gt;out of so many men&lt;br /&gt;I walk where the years&lt;br /&gt;have created my fears&lt;br /&gt;this house did doubt&lt;br /&gt;this neighborhoods&lt;br /&gt;within me this&lt;br /&gt;which I have lost&lt;br /&gt;my main man&lt;br /&gt;to his dreams.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6094023610566060306?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6094023610566060306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6094023610566060306' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6094023610566060306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6094023610566060306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/surrounding-center.html' title='The Surrounding Center'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-1126801434059873526</id><published>2011-12-11T14:00:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:00:47.716-08:00</updated><title type='text'>His soul</title><content type='html'>His soul&lt;br /&gt;yes that part&lt;br /&gt;of him his pains burns&lt;br /&gt;to let me in his truth&lt;br /&gt;yes that part&lt;br /&gt;ambitious and&lt;br /&gt;much an able&lt;br /&gt;snatched\&lt;br /&gt;dexterity&lt;br /&gt;haughty his hands&lt;br /&gt;at the waste&lt;br /&gt;my long deep breath&lt;br /&gt;impertinent&lt;br /&gt;with sweat&lt;br /&gt;his prologue&lt;br /&gt;his tears laments&lt;br /&gt;in a dizzy state&lt;br /&gt;with rivulets&lt;br /&gt;of rain and blood&lt;br /&gt;and drops of dos&lt;br /&gt;his wave just&lt;br /&gt;of pre cum&lt;br /&gt;because the&lt;br /&gt;revolution &lt;br /&gt;of our love&lt;br /&gt;was forestalled&lt;br /&gt;his cleaving marrow&lt;br /&gt;yes this is confessing&lt;br /&gt;it is what he do to me&lt;br /&gt;when he do me done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-1126801434059873526?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/1126801434059873526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=1126801434059873526' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1126801434059873526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1126801434059873526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/his-soul_1467.html' title='His soul'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3961271455962926033</id><published>2011-12-11T14:00:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T14:00:16.280-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Something touched me</title><content type='html'>Something touched me&lt;br /&gt;on the back of the shoulder&lt;br /&gt;I looked none here&lt;br /&gt;but the hand of air&lt;br /&gt;and the warmth&lt;br /&gt;and light of the sun&lt;br /&gt;my god as gods goes.&lt;br /&gt;Then something slapped&lt;br /&gt;on the back of the head&lt;br /&gt;I turned and saw only a long&lt;br /&gt;curly strand&lt;br /&gt;of my hair hanging&lt;br /&gt;lightly on the tail&lt;br /&gt;wind of a fading wind&lt;br /&gt;Somethings are&lt;br /&gt;shooting into and&lt;br /&gt;out and through me&lt;br /&gt;it is the cosmos breathing&lt;br /&gt;it is this God or&lt;br /&gt;uncontrollable&lt;br /&gt;dream of some God&lt;br /&gt;complete with nightmares&lt;br /&gt;of children hungry&lt;br /&gt;in their beds&lt;br /&gt;and bullets holes&lt;br /&gt;in the school house walls.&lt;br /&gt;These things leave&lt;br /&gt;no holes but they&lt;br /&gt;hold me fast&lt;br /&gt;like a water of fire&lt;br /&gt;and creativity's&lt;br /&gt;cultivated prayers&lt;br /&gt;falls from my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;Yes I have water&lt;br /&gt;made within me&lt;br /&gt;and word filled&lt;br /&gt;breath of winds&lt;br /&gt;and sun heated skin&lt;br /&gt;as well as heart within&lt;br /&gt;its warmth warms&lt;br /&gt;the way I walk through&lt;br /&gt;what through in and&lt;br /&gt; out of me.&lt;br /&gt;God is my Mother&lt;br /&gt;my Nurse Maid&lt;br /&gt;and Mid Wife wedded&lt;br /&gt;to darkness and light.&lt;br /&gt;This mom ménage à trois rules&lt;br /&gt;my life. All that is&lt;br /&gt;is by pleasure of&lt;br /&gt;darkness and light&lt;br /&gt;and the cosmos&lt;br /&gt;raise and falls&lt;br /&gt;and dark hole&lt;br /&gt;themselves to death&lt;br /&gt;and life is born.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3961271455962926033?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3961271455962926033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3961271455962926033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3961271455962926033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3961271455962926033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/something-touched-me.html' title='Something touched me'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5611867317970327509</id><published>2011-12-11T13:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:59:17.411-08:00</updated><title type='text'>his soul</title><content type='html'>his soul&lt;br /&gt;yes that part&lt;br /&gt;of him his&lt;br /&gt;pains burns&lt;br /&gt;to let me in&lt;br /&gt;his truth&lt;br /&gt;yes that part&lt;br /&gt;ambitious and&lt;br /&gt;much an able&lt;br /&gt;snatched dexterity&lt;br /&gt;naught his hands&lt;br /&gt;at my wast&lt;br /&gt;my long deep breath&lt;br /&gt;impertinent with sweat&lt;br /&gt;his prolonged prologue&lt;br /&gt;his tears laments&lt;br /&gt;in a dizzy state&lt;br /&gt;with rivulets&lt;br /&gt;of rain and&lt;br /&gt;blood and drops&lt;br /&gt;of pre cum his waves&lt;br /&gt;just because the&lt;br /&gt;revolution of our love&lt;br /&gt;was forestalled in the wait&lt;br /&gt;that on me my&lt;br /&gt;ancestors laid&lt;br /&gt;his cleaving marrow&lt;br /&gt;yes this is confusing&lt;br /&gt;it is what he does to me&lt;br /&gt;when he do me done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5611867317970327509?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5611867317970327509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5611867317970327509' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5611867317970327509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5611867317970327509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/his-soul_11.html' title='his soul'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5787201086139103713</id><published>2011-12-11T13:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:58:38.627-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stranglers in the Cemetery</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will ayuga your skin&lt;br /&gt;my connotation of prostitution&lt;br /&gt;as b-boy bubble butt&lt;br /&gt;getting fucked&lt;br /&gt;B/D top but your&lt;br /&gt;baguette a baby Crockett....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5787201086139103713?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5787201086139103713/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5787201086139103713' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5787201086139103713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5787201086139103713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/stranglers-in-cemetery_11.html' title='Stranglers in the Cemetery'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6304735743427057378</id><published>2011-12-11T13:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:57:15.863-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Doorways leads</title><content type='html'>Doorways leads&lt;br /&gt;if you are led&lt;br /&gt;southern crosses&lt;br /&gt;tattooed on the&lt;br /&gt;fore head&lt;br /&gt;crystal charms&lt;br /&gt;and combat booths&lt;br /&gt;residue of lust&lt;br /&gt;cicatrix and crucifix&lt;br /&gt;which holds you in bondage&lt;br /&gt;sexual choices of&lt;br /&gt;a proud black man&lt;br /&gt;flaunting his lust&lt;br /&gt;for affections&lt;br /&gt;crescent moon follow&lt;br /&gt;him home dangling&lt;br /&gt;dreams of those now gone&lt;br /&gt;the path way is pitted with rocks&lt;br /&gt;with negativity that&lt;br /&gt;will ware you down&lt;br /&gt;and pawn your crown&lt;br /&gt;of thorns, life is&lt;br /&gt;worth more then&lt;br /&gt;a pair of sneakers&lt;br /&gt;with someones else brand name&lt;br /&gt;life is worth the price&lt;br /&gt;of a condom to keep you sane&lt;br /&gt;thee war of Kuwaiti is&lt;br /&gt;the whites man's game&lt;br /&gt;and blacks the same&lt;br /&gt;the endless dunes is&lt;br /&gt;a re frame&lt;br /&gt;let me smooth yours&lt;br /&gt;snappy pubic hairs&lt;br /&gt;I use no lye, let me&lt;br /&gt;unbounded your desires&lt;br /&gt;I go down on my knees&lt;br /&gt;it tents and cities&lt;br /&gt;and feed you reserve-unit&lt;br /&gt;rations when we choke&lt;br /&gt;because of the smoke&lt;br /&gt;bellowing from lit&lt;br /&gt;to light oil wells&lt;br /&gt;soldiers are leaders&lt;br /&gt;soldiers are led&lt;br /&gt;soldiers bed the desert&lt;br /&gt;and other soldier men.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6304735743427057378?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6304735743427057378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6304735743427057378' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6304735743427057378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6304735743427057378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/doorways-leads.html' title='Doorways leads'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8127880630277348518</id><published>2011-12-11T13:56:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:56:35.135-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I keep many things</title><content type='html'>I keep many things&lt;br /&gt;names of men&lt;br /&gt;the list is long&lt;br /&gt;of them now gone&lt;br /&gt;I keep my hurts&lt;br /&gt;my overgrown scars to&lt;br /&gt;smooth the stones&lt;br /&gt;these gray grave markers&lt;br /&gt;standing strong when their&lt;br /&gt;bares are now bones&lt;br /&gt;the marker of graves&lt;br /&gt;of black men this disease took them&lt;br /&gt;they did not want to go&lt;br /&gt;the feeble attempt of names&lt;br /&gt;sawed into quits&lt;br /&gt;that covers no one&lt;br /&gt;I have no needles&lt;br /&gt;I have no threads&lt;br /&gt;only patch works now&lt;br /&gt;memories of them now dead.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8127880630277348518?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8127880630277348518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8127880630277348518' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8127880630277348518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8127880630277348518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-keep-many-things_11.html' title='I keep many things'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3726703734642074724</id><published>2011-12-11T13:55:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:55:47.148-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AIDs 30 Years on</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 year it have been&lt;br /&gt;since the first one&lt;br /&gt;marked on the head&lt;br /&gt;of his dick a St. Louis teenager&lt;br /&gt;died in 1969&lt;br /&gt;30 years I carry&lt;br /&gt;a touch whose flame&lt;br /&gt;fought the winds&lt;br /&gt;whose light flickers&lt;br /&gt;to light my way&lt;br /&gt;whose light dims&lt;br /&gt;at the close of day&lt;br /&gt;30 years packed tight&lt;br /&gt;with black men like&lt;br /&gt;some stinking cargo hold&lt;br /&gt;of rotting flesh&lt;br /&gt;I weep not for&lt;br /&gt;them gone for they&lt;br /&gt;have gone home&lt;br /&gt;but for my young brothers&lt;br /&gt;who because of their&lt;br /&gt;sexual needs reject&lt;br /&gt;the rubber for naked skin&lt;br /&gt;and allow Aids in&lt;br /&gt;brothers safe guard&lt;br /&gt;yourselves it ain’t all that&lt;br /&gt;protect yourselves against&lt;br /&gt;the treat that will eat&lt;br /&gt;away all your flesh&lt;br /&gt;I will not leave you along&lt;br /&gt;to sex with only yourself&lt;br /&gt;30 years of death&lt;br /&gt;and nature is not to blame&lt;br /&gt;all things have a right&lt;br /&gt;to life all things even&lt;br /&gt;this disease that takes away life&lt;br /&gt;it is you who must protect&lt;br /&gt;your sexual lovers in the night.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3726703734642074724?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3726703734642074724/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3726703734642074724' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3726703734642074724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3726703734642074724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/aids-30-years-on_11.html' title='AIDs 30 Years on'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-807591824371473790</id><published>2011-12-11T13:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:55:01.355-08:00</updated><title type='text'>we soldiers</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once was fitted&lt;br /&gt;by what I wore&lt;br /&gt;my booths shinning&lt;br /&gt;my rank two fingers deep&lt;br /&gt;I met my lover in the Army&lt;br /&gt;where all enlisted are&lt;br /&gt;brothers in the cause&lt;br /&gt;don't ask don't tell&lt;br /&gt;a secret we could not&lt;br /&gt;afford I would&lt;br /&gt;have given my life&lt;br /&gt;if it came to that&lt;br /&gt;for the American way&lt;br /&gt;for you right to parade&lt;br /&gt;against this war&lt;br /&gt;I had my orders&lt;br /&gt;shipped from Ft Leonard Wood&lt;br /&gt;where I was trained to&lt;br /&gt;take a life without&lt;br /&gt;regret to numb myself&lt;br /&gt;and pull the trigger&lt;br /&gt;to hit my marksmen mark&lt;br /&gt;in AIT and morning PT&lt;br /&gt;in mess halls and platoons breast to backs&lt;br /&gt;they got mines and I their&lt;br /&gt;your left right your left right&lt;br /&gt;Johnny got your gal and gone&lt;br /&gt;sand my hair sand in my booths&lt;br /&gt;the sweaty helmet I ware, the gas&lt;br /&gt;mask the deadly air&lt;br /&gt;the fallen brothers&lt;br /&gt;the cross on the grave markers&lt;br /&gt;the tiny flags&lt;br /&gt;we report for duty&lt;br /&gt;we clean our M-16s&lt;br /&gt;we shower together&lt;br /&gt;as men, we smoke&lt;br /&gt;our grass and pop our pills&lt;br /&gt;then we sleep as not to kill&lt;br /&gt;I have known killers been one myself&lt;br /&gt;for we are soldiers&lt;br /&gt;come to rescuer men&lt;br /&gt;POW the black flag wave&lt;br /&gt;we liberate&lt;br /&gt;our brothers pinned down&lt;br /&gt;we try not to be caught&lt;br /&gt;in the cross fire but shit happens&lt;br /&gt;we save our dicks that stands&lt;br /&gt;at attention fore calmer days&lt;br /&gt;we sleep in villages whenever we can&lt;br /&gt;I got me an over-nighter&lt;br /&gt;i hunt reconnaissance&lt;br /&gt;from door to door&lt;br /&gt;I seek the American's foe&lt;br /&gt;who will do me harm&lt;br /&gt;the medic is by my side&lt;br /&gt;the generals far away behind the lines&lt;br /&gt;we are the chess pieces&lt;br /&gt;that they play the board is the killing fields&lt;br /&gt;down the way&lt;br /&gt;the gunners, the armor division&lt;br /&gt;the leather necks and the grunts gun ho God given&lt;br /&gt;grace bold forgiven&lt;br /&gt;and when I have served my time&lt;br /&gt;when I am a short timer&lt;br /&gt;put my helmet over my booths&lt;br /&gt;and let them stand in line&lt;br /&gt;for rotation of being recalled to duty&lt;br /&gt;I have but one regret&lt;br /&gt;and this is it that&lt;br /&gt;only the soldiers knows the toll, the cost paid&lt;br /&gt;to blow a trumpet before the grave&lt;br /&gt;a flag on our coffin&lt;br /&gt;can not wave&lt;br /&gt;the gun salute&lt;br /&gt;only shoots holes into the sky&lt;br /&gt;we brave soldiers we who&lt;br /&gt;served and we die&lt;br /&gt;we legless, we with sightless eyes&lt;br /&gt;we who because of what&lt;br /&gt;we see in war must fight&lt;br /&gt;against out own minds&lt;br /&gt;we brave who answered the call&lt;br /&gt;we stand tall, we stand tall&lt;br /&gt;for you all.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-807591824371473790?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/807591824371473790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=807591824371473790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/807591824371473790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/807591824371473790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/we-soldiers_11.html' title='we soldiers'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3539468664810085079</id><published>2011-12-11T13:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:51:42.150-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Many are my thoughts</title><content type='html'>Many are my thoughts&lt;br /&gt;dark my days and nights&lt;br /&gt;I am not right&lt;br /&gt;in the head&lt;br /&gt;all said I brood&lt;br /&gt;caution not to cry in public&lt;br /&gt;I sink into my body&lt;br /&gt;eyes agleam awakening&lt;br /&gt;into this love&lt;br /&gt;that rushes fluids &lt;br /&gt;into me&lt;br /&gt;I as window&lt;br /&gt;as poet that you&lt;br /&gt;can look though&lt;br /&gt;I am many meanings&lt;br /&gt;of blackness seen&lt;br /&gt;on the bus sunk&lt;br /&gt;down on the city's&lt;br /&gt;street I the greener grass&lt;br /&gt;on this side of town&lt;br /&gt;I dark drown&lt;br /&gt;hugging all darkness&lt;br /&gt;all skin color&lt;br /&gt;echoing nigh&lt;br /&gt;I conspire to&lt;br /&gt;win your heart&lt;br /&gt;only if it is&lt;br /&gt;willingly given&lt;br /&gt;I am not right&lt;br /&gt;in the head&lt;br /&gt;I think that blacks&lt;br /&gt;can save man&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3539468664810085079?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3539468664810085079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3539468664810085079' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3539468664810085079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3539468664810085079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/many-are-my-thoughts.html' title='Many are my thoughts'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8792231344644950001</id><published>2011-12-11T13:50:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T13:50:27.479-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The window</title><content type='html'>The window is sitting&lt;br /&gt;on a ledge dreaming&lt;br /&gt;of the junkies who&lt;br /&gt;ware stocking on their knuckles&lt;br /&gt;the man with blue blood&lt;br /&gt;is made up of grief&lt;br /&gt;and his eyes are&lt;br /&gt;the color of homicide&lt;br /&gt;his tongue is an entrapment&lt;br /&gt;his blood is drunk&lt;br /&gt;on male love and&lt;br /&gt;his smile searches&lt;br /&gt;the sour needles&lt;br /&gt;struck in the veins&lt;br /&gt;of a hanging hung&lt;br /&gt;on his flashbacks&lt;br /&gt;memories are never&lt;br /&gt;as innocent as graveyards&lt;br /&gt;or the drug of sweet cum&lt;br /&gt;that some men drink&lt;br /&gt;like booze.&lt;br /&gt;To soon he will monkey up&lt;br /&gt;to his neglect and his&lt;br /&gt;declared space on the corner&lt;br /&gt;that he keeps beside all of&lt;br /&gt;his indifference&lt;br /&gt;the ice of his eyes&lt;br /&gt;sees the lost regret&lt;br /&gt;wallowing down the&lt;br /&gt;let down of the streets&lt;br /&gt;his ceaseless drugs&lt;br /&gt;declare that spiting out&lt;br /&gt;the blood from its sucker&lt;br /&gt;punch will be practicing&lt;br /&gt;color in the dark&lt;br /&gt;there is a lump of the&lt;br /&gt;real dream in his heart&lt;br /&gt;there is a stolen bed&lt;br /&gt;in his ways when&lt;br /&gt;the night is as cheat&lt;br /&gt;as lost prayers used&lt;br /&gt;to introduce him to his God&lt;br /&gt;who is pissing out&lt;br /&gt;salvation that bruise&lt;br /&gt;the skin of a dark corner&lt;br /&gt;in paradise.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8792231344644950001?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8792231344644950001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8792231344644950001' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8792231344644950001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8792231344644950001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/window.html' title='The window'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3034635448674165231</id><published>2011-12-11T10:54:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:54:31.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O night O day</title><content type='html'>O night O day&lt;br /&gt;O once again&lt;br /&gt;O stay I am&lt;br /&gt;the sucker thief&lt;br /&gt;I steal fore skins&lt;br /&gt;to ware as a ring&lt;br /&gt;O rawdog queer&lt;br /&gt;my tears are prayers&lt;br /&gt;against your nightmares&lt;br /&gt;O desperation of breathing&lt;br /&gt;my home breath&lt;br /&gt;O spent cares of my comfort&lt;br /&gt;that rest on my warm breast&lt;br /&gt;O evicted love&lt;br /&gt;O landlord of men cum&lt;br /&gt;I holler I scream&lt;br /&gt;and the two-bit whores&lt;br /&gt;came to save me.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3034635448674165231?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3034635448674165231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3034635448674165231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3034635448674165231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3034635448674165231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/o-night-o-day_11.html' title='O night O day'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3422371312516610257</id><published>2011-12-11T10:53:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:53:50.141-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I rolled</title><content type='html'>I rolled down&lt;br /&gt;my tongue so that&lt;br /&gt;he could take&lt;br /&gt;a strode and&lt;br /&gt;my nameless owning&lt;br /&gt;the carders of my ears&lt;br /&gt;bullets was&lt;br /&gt;shot from my&lt;br /&gt;nostrils they&lt;br /&gt;ripped the image&lt;br /&gt;of the fair skinned Christ&lt;br /&gt;who offed me&lt;br /&gt;a stagger of tabernacles&lt;br /&gt;the lines in my face&lt;br /&gt;was tasks that&lt;br /&gt;I never got around to&lt;br /&gt;offer me water to&lt;br /&gt;shade my love of youngsters&lt;br /&gt;offer me me relief&lt;br /&gt;from the fire&lt;br /&gt;of your touch&lt;br /&gt;when grief&lt;br /&gt;stalks me pass a&lt;br /&gt;nameless rolls of Negroes&lt;br /&gt;digging out&lt;br /&gt;the eyes of&lt;br /&gt;white soldiers&lt;br /&gt;who killed the&lt;br /&gt;last meaning&lt;br /&gt;of being free.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3422371312516610257?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3422371312516610257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3422371312516610257' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3422371312516610257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3422371312516610257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/i-rolled.html' title='I rolled'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4174478770325822816</id><published>2011-12-11T10:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:53:21.136-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Boys are</title><content type='html'>Boys are more concern&lt;br /&gt;with their muscles&lt;br /&gt;they can not resist the run&lt;br /&gt;it's all just boyish fun&lt;br /&gt;boys kills more &lt;br /&gt;creatures then girls&lt;br /&gt;they tear off the&lt;br /&gt;light of firefly&lt;br /&gt;and wear it as a ring&lt;br /&gt;boys are not mean&lt;br /&gt;they are inquisitive about&lt;br /&gt;creep crowing things&lt;br /&gt;they are allowed&lt;br /&gt;to get dirty&lt;br /&gt;boys will play&lt;br /&gt;with toy dolls and&lt;br /&gt;toy guns just for fun&lt;br /&gt;they love the&lt;br /&gt;new electronic gadgets&lt;br /&gt;boys learn to&lt;br /&gt;hold their tears&lt;br /&gt;to bite down&lt;br /&gt;on their pain&lt;br /&gt;they think girls&lt;br /&gt;are wearied&lt;br /&gt;in a girlish&lt;br /&gt;kind of a way&lt;br /&gt;boys like to&lt;br /&gt;go fast to&lt;br /&gt;give it all they got&lt;br /&gt;on the swing&lt;br /&gt;from which they jump&lt;br /&gt;in mid air&lt;br /&gt;and sand box&lt;br /&gt;pouring sand into their hair&lt;br /&gt;boys collect&lt;br /&gt;natural things&lt;br /&gt;like sea shells&lt;br /&gt;and rocks&lt;br /&gt;and stamps from overseas&lt;br /&gt;boy takes the time&lt;br /&gt;to closely examine things&lt;br /&gt;boys are impatient&lt;br /&gt;they have energy to spend&lt;br /&gt;boys loves to throw&lt;br /&gt;the farest the best&lt;br /&gt;and boys like to bet&lt;br /&gt;boys aren't afraid&lt;br /&gt;of bad words&lt;br /&gt;you will hear them&lt;br /&gt;on their lips&lt;br /&gt;boys can be cruel&lt;br /&gt;to cats but hold&lt;br /&gt;dogs with respect&lt;br /&gt;boys look more&lt;br /&gt;closely at dead things&lt;br /&gt;and ask you why&lt;br /&gt;the hark got&lt;br /&gt;a pigeon in his mouth&lt;br /&gt;boys like to play&lt;br /&gt;will splashes in puddles&lt;br /&gt;of dead rain&lt;br /&gt;boys like to&lt;br /&gt;explore far&lt;br /&gt;and near&lt;br /&gt;boys must be taught&lt;br /&gt;to pull back and wash&lt;br /&gt; the foreskin&lt;br /&gt;boys will walk&lt;br /&gt;the tight rope&lt;br /&gt;of what it means&lt;br /&gt;to be a boy&lt;br /&gt;and they will&lt;br /&gt;shadow box&lt;br /&gt;and wrestler&lt;br /&gt;with their friends&lt;br /&gt;boys will pick a fight&lt;br /&gt;to see how&lt;br /&gt;far they can push&lt;br /&gt;and pull the hair&lt;br /&gt;of little girls&lt;br /&gt;to say I like you&lt;br /&gt;boys will shoot birds&lt;br /&gt;with their bb guns&lt;br /&gt;and break windows&lt;br /&gt;with their balls&lt;br /&gt;all in all&lt;br /&gt;boys are made by&lt;br /&gt;and boys are taught&lt;br /&gt;that man knows best&lt;br /&gt;without a doubt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4174478770325822816?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4174478770325822816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4174478770325822816' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4174478770325822816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4174478770325822816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/boys-are.html' title='Boys are'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6923273560737529342</id><published>2011-12-11T10:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:52:46.738-08:00</updated><title type='text'>His walk is like a song</title><content type='html'>His walk is like a song&lt;br /&gt;not just any old song&lt;br /&gt;but the kinda song&lt;br /&gt;that Nina Simone&lt;br /&gt;want to take on&lt;br /&gt;put it on me, baby&lt;br /&gt;his voice demands respect&lt;br /&gt;the kind that you get&lt;br /&gt;when you learn to&lt;br /&gt;spell it from a song&lt;br /&gt;r-e-s-p-e-c-t sister man&lt;br /&gt;asking this of me&lt;br /&gt;put it on me, baby&lt;br /&gt;his smile a hidden clown&lt;br /&gt;the joy bring kind&lt;br /&gt;cause he's brave enough&lt;br /&gt;to pull the hairs&lt;br /&gt;from his chest&lt;br /&gt;the kind that&lt;br /&gt;asks in a 70s&lt;br /&gt;kinda way&lt;br /&gt;didn't I blow your mind&lt;br /&gt;this time, didn't I&lt;br /&gt;put it on me, baby&lt;br /&gt;his feminine is strong&lt;br /&gt;he bares it on&lt;br /&gt;his shoulders&lt;br /&gt;like his bravery he do&lt;br /&gt;it is as beautiful as&lt;br /&gt;embroider silk&lt;br /&gt;and strong as kente cloth&lt;br /&gt;he is the ancestral drums&lt;br /&gt;that moves our hips&lt;br /&gt;of who we be&lt;br /&gt;put it on me, baby&lt;br /&gt;his lovin' is like&lt;br /&gt;my ace boon coon&lt;br /&gt;the kind that people&lt;br /&gt;seldom sing of&lt;br /&gt;the kind that&lt;br /&gt;poets breathe&lt;br /&gt;their breath  to&lt;br /&gt;catch a whips of&lt;br /&gt;put-it-on-me, baby&lt;br /&gt;his touch touches&lt;br /&gt;my lust it dispel&lt;br /&gt;my fragile hurts&lt;br /&gt;he tongue my embrace&lt;br /&gt;I assure his gender&lt;br /&gt;when he put it on me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6923273560737529342?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6923273560737529342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6923273560737529342' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6923273560737529342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6923273560737529342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/his-walk-is-like-song_11.html' title='His walk is like a song'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2893081965264999444</id><published>2011-12-11T10:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:44:17.066-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;is my love&lt;br /&gt;most scripture&lt;br /&gt;is his needs&lt;br /&gt;most difficult&lt;br /&gt;is his doubts&lt;br /&gt;that he will&lt;br /&gt;no longer love me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2893081965264999444?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2893081965264999444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2893081965264999444' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2893081965264999444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2893081965264999444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-my-love-most-scripture-is-his-needs.html' title=''/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-9122442104020864608</id><published>2011-12-11T10:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:17:03.860-08:00</updated><title type='text'>There are no</title><content type='html'>There are nocheat queersno kindnessthat is holleringprayers at theking of heartsthere is nobreath that cannot dancecan not scream like awhore's prayermy money is my lawyermy two-bit is listeningto the tic of my heartthat weeps its humiliationlike standing on the cornerwaiting for a John whoI can sweat into the throatof trafficthere is a bed of speedthat is my thief my rancid realitythat creeps against the suckingof me and my night always nasty alwaysfull of silk pantiesworn under my breath-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-9122442104020864608?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/9122442104020864608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=9122442104020864608' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/9122442104020864608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/9122442104020864608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/12/there-are-no.html' title='There are no'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3301986941249352501</id><published>2011-06-23T11:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T11:26:50.372-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I keep many Things</title><content type='html'>I keep many things&lt;br /&gt;names of men&lt;br /&gt;the list is long&lt;br /&gt;of them now gone&lt;br /&gt;I keep my hurts&lt;br /&gt;my overgrown scars to&lt;br /&gt;smooth the stones&lt;br /&gt;these gray grave markers&lt;br /&gt;standing strong when their&lt;br /&gt;bares are now bones&lt;br /&gt;the marker of graves&lt;br /&gt;of black men this disease took them&lt;br /&gt;they did not want to go&lt;br /&gt;the feeble attempt of names&lt;br /&gt;sawed into quits&lt;br /&gt;that covers no one&lt;br /&gt;I have no needles&lt;br /&gt;I have no threads&lt;br /&gt;only patch works now&lt;br /&gt;memories of them now dead.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3301986941249352501?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3301986941249352501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3301986941249352501' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3301986941249352501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3301986941249352501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/30-years_23.html' title='I keep many Things'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2360487216492804639</id><published>2011-06-23T10:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T10:58:31.961-07:00</updated><title type='text'>We Soldiers of the Cause</title><content type='html'>I once was fitted&lt;br /&gt;by what I wore&lt;br /&gt;my booths shinning&lt;br /&gt;my rank two fingers deep&lt;br /&gt;I met my lover in the Army&lt;br /&gt;where all enlisted are&lt;br /&gt;brothers in the cause&lt;br /&gt;don't ask don't tell&lt;br /&gt;a secret we could not&lt;br /&gt;afford I would&lt;br /&gt;have given my life&lt;br /&gt;if it came to that&lt;br /&gt;for the American way&lt;br /&gt;for you right to parade&lt;br /&gt;against this war&lt;br /&gt;I had my orders&lt;br /&gt;shipped from Ft Leonard Wood&lt;br /&gt;where I was trained to&lt;br /&gt;take a life without&lt;br /&gt;regret to numb myself&lt;br /&gt;and pull the trigger&lt;br /&gt;to hit my marksmen mark&lt;br /&gt;in AIT and morning PT&lt;br /&gt;in mess halls and platoons breast to backs&lt;br /&gt;they got mines and I their&lt;br /&gt;your left right your left right&lt;br /&gt;Johnny got your gal and gone&lt;br /&gt;sand my hair sand in my booths&lt;br /&gt;the sweaty helmet I ware, the gas&lt;br /&gt;mask the deadly air&lt;br /&gt;the fallen brothers&lt;br /&gt;the cross on the grave markers&lt;br /&gt;the tiny flags&lt;br /&gt;we report for duty&lt;br /&gt;we clean our M-16s&lt;br /&gt;we shower together&lt;br /&gt;as men, we smoke&lt;br /&gt;our grass and pop our pills&lt;br /&gt;then we sleep as not to kill&lt;br /&gt;I have known killers been one myself&lt;br /&gt;for we are soldiers&lt;br /&gt;come to rescuer men&lt;br /&gt;POW the black flag wave&lt;br /&gt;we liberate&lt;br /&gt;our brothers pinned down&lt;br /&gt;we try not to be caught&lt;br /&gt;in the cross fire but shit happens&lt;br /&gt;we save our dicks that stands&lt;br /&gt;at attention fore calmer days&lt;br /&gt;we sleep in villages whenever we can&lt;br /&gt;I got me an over-nighter&lt;br /&gt;i hunt reconnaissance&lt;br /&gt;from door to door&lt;br /&gt;I seek the American's foe&lt;br /&gt;who will do me harm&lt;br /&gt;the medic is by my side&lt;br /&gt;the generals far away behind the lines&lt;br /&gt;we are the chess pieces&lt;br /&gt;that they play the board is the killing fields&lt;br /&gt;down the way&lt;br /&gt;the gunners, the armor division&lt;br /&gt;the leather necks and the grunts gun ho God given&lt;br /&gt;grace bold forgiven&lt;br /&gt;and when I have served my time&lt;br /&gt;when I am a short timer&lt;br /&gt;put my helmet over my booths&lt;br /&gt;and let them stand in line&lt;br /&gt;for rotation of being recalled to duty&lt;br /&gt;I have but one regret&lt;br /&gt;and this is it that&lt;br /&gt;only the soldiers knows the toll, the cost paid&lt;br /&gt;to blow a trumpet before the grave&lt;br /&gt;a flag on our coffin&lt;br /&gt;can not wave&lt;br /&gt;the gun salute&lt;br /&gt;only shoots holes into the sky&lt;br /&gt;we brave soldiers we who&lt;br /&gt;served and we die&lt;br /&gt;we legless, we with sightless eyes&lt;br /&gt;we who because of what&lt;br /&gt;we see in war must fight&lt;br /&gt;against out own minds&lt;br /&gt;we brave who answered the call&lt;br /&gt;we stand tall, we stand tall&lt;br /&gt;for you all.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2360487216492804639?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2360487216492804639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2360487216492804639' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2360487216492804639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2360487216492804639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/we-soldiers-of-cause.html' title='We Soldiers of the Cause'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-611173536732414596</id><published>2011-06-23T10:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T10:57:20.298-07:00</updated><title type='text'>30 Years</title><content type='html'>30 year it have been&lt;br /&gt;since the first one&lt;br /&gt;marked on the head&lt;br /&gt;of his dick a St. Louis teenager&lt;br /&gt;died in 969&lt;br /&gt;30 years I carry&lt;br /&gt;a touch whose flame&lt;br /&gt;fought the winds&lt;br /&gt;whose light flickers&lt;br /&gt;to light my way&lt;br /&gt;whose light dims&lt;br /&gt;at the close of day&lt;br /&gt;30 years packed tight&lt;br /&gt;with black men like&lt;br /&gt;some stinking cargo hold&lt;br /&gt;of rotting flesh&lt;br /&gt;I weep not for&lt;br /&gt;them gone for they&lt;br /&gt;have gone home&lt;br /&gt;but for my young brothers&lt;br /&gt;who because of their&lt;br /&gt;sexual needs reject&lt;br /&gt;the rubber for naked skin&lt;br /&gt;and allow Aids in&lt;br /&gt;brothers safe guard&lt;br /&gt;yourselves it ain’t all that&lt;br /&gt;protect yourselves against&lt;br /&gt;the treat that will eat&lt;br /&gt;away all your flesh&lt;br /&gt;I will not leave you along&lt;br /&gt;to sex with only yourself&lt;br /&gt;30 years of death&lt;br /&gt;and nature is not to blame&lt;br /&gt;all things have a right&lt;br /&gt;to life all things even&lt;br /&gt;this disease that takes away life&lt;br /&gt;it is you who must protect&lt;br /&gt;your sexual lovers in the night&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-611173536732414596?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/611173536732414596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=611173536732414596' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/611173536732414596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/611173536732414596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/30-years.html' title='30 Years'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2144536406188263696</id><published>2011-05-29T16:12:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T15:40:42.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Some men</title><content type='html'>Some men go for light skin&lt;br /&gt;some the same for that straight long hair&lt;br /&gt;some for big dicks&lt;br /&gt;some a cute young thing to ware&lt;br /&gt;some men are player player&lt;br /&gt;get you to give them anything&lt;br /&gt;but these men will not be tied down&lt;br /&gt;with a wedding ring&lt;br /&gt;some men are as dark as dirt&lt;br /&gt;and will give it to you at their homes&lt;br /&gt;cook you dinner and pay your phone&lt;br /&gt;so glad to belong&lt;br /&gt;some men play games like that&lt;br /&gt;they will steal even your blackness&lt;br /&gt;then blame the whole damn thing on you&lt;br /&gt;some men are ever so smooth&lt;br /&gt;to woo you with a kiss&lt;br /&gt;some men will hit&lt;br /&gt;some men drink to forget&lt;br /&gt;that they are in love with you&lt;br /&gt;some men will hit you up for gas&lt;br /&gt;every other day&lt;br /&gt;some men got a little bit on the side&lt;br /&gt;yell some men be that way&lt;br /&gt;some men will take you to school&lt;br /&gt;some men suffer no fools&lt;br /&gt;some men are to good to be true&lt;br /&gt;and spend all of their little money on you&lt;br /&gt;and they say a good man is hard to find&lt;br /&gt;I do believe that some men are blind&lt;br /&gt;to seek the flesh instead of the mind.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2144536406188263696?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2144536406188263696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2144536406188263696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2144536406188263696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2144536406188263696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/05/some-men.html' title='Some men'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8111366716756508754</id><published>2011-05-27T15:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-27T15:46:16.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The heat of the sun</title><content type='html'>The heat of the sun&lt;br /&gt;inundate me&lt;br /&gt;with warm wind&lt;br /&gt;just fresh across&lt;br /&gt;his tongue&lt;br /&gt;our love is only&lt;br /&gt;recognized by&lt;br /&gt;our history&lt;br /&gt;the breeders came&lt;br /&gt;and murdered it&lt;br /&gt;in its sleep when&lt;br /&gt;we was not on guard&lt;br /&gt;my mouth disdain language&lt;br /&gt;my hands are&lt;br /&gt;re[eating idiocies&lt;br /&gt;used to touch&lt;br /&gt;the memories left&lt;br /&gt;on the kitchen table&lt;br /&gt;like old newspapers&lt;br /&gt;that have seen&lt;br /&gt;better winds blowing&lt;br /&gt;the streets, yes&lt;br /&gt;the real reality&lt;br /&gt;of being gay is&lt;br /&gt;worth all the money&lt;br /&gt;in my dreams&lt;br /&gt;that I keep tugged&lt;br /&gt;between my spendings&lt;br /&gt;and my hollering at&lt;br /&gt;the nobody of&lt;br /&gt;my desires.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8111366716756508754?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8111366716756508754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8111366716756508754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8111366716756508754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8111366716756508754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/05/heat-of-sun.html' title='The heat of the sun'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-1844613175733115301</id><published>2011-05-23T22:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T15:46:41.561-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Boys are</title><content type='html'>Boys are more concern&lt;br /&gt;with their muscles&lt;br /&gt;they can not resist the run&lt;br /&gt;it's all just boyish fun&lt;br /&gt;boys kills more &lt;br /&gt;creatures then girls&lt;br /&gt;they tear off the&lt;br /&gt;light of firefly&lt;br /&gt;and wear it as a ring&lt;br /&gt;boys are not mean&lt;br /&gt;they are inquisitive about&lt;br /&gt;creep crowing things&lt;br /&gt;they are allowed&lt;br /&gt;to get dirty&lt;br /&gt;boys will play&lt;br /&gt;with toy dolls and&lt;br /&gt;toy guns just for fun&lt;br /&gt;they love the&lt;br /&gt;new electronic gadgets&lt;br /&gt;boys learn to&lt;br /&gt;hold their tears&lt;br /&gt;to bite down&lt;br /&gt;on their pain&lt;br /&gt;they think girls&lt;br /&gt;are wearied&lt;br /&gt;in a girlish&lt;br /&gt;kind of a way&lt;br /&gt;boys like to&lt;br /&gt;go fast to&lt;br /&gt;give it all they got&lt;br /&gt;on the swing&lt;br /&gt;from which they jump&lt;br /&gt;in mid air&lt;br /&gt;and sand box&lt;br /&gt;pouring sand into their hair&lt;br /&gt;boys collect&lt;br /&gt;natural things&lt;br /&gt;like sea shells&lt;br /&gt;and rocks&lt;br /&gt;and stamps from overseas&lt;br /&gt;boy takes the time&lt;br /&gt;to closely examine things&lt;br /&gt;boys are impatient&lt;br /&gt;they have energy to spend&lt;br /&gt;boys loves to throw&lt;br /&gt;the farest the best&lt;br /&gt;and boys like to bet&lt;br /&gt;boys aren't afraid&lt;br /&gt;of bad words&lt;br /&gt;you will hear them&lt;br /&gt;on their lips&lt;br /&gt;boys can be cruel&lt;br /&gt;to cats but hold&lt;br /&gt;dogs with respect&lt;br /&gt;boys look more&lt;br /&gt;closely at dead things&lt;br /&gt;and ask you why&lt;br /&gt;the hark got&lt;br /&gt;a pigeon in his mouth&lt;br /&gt;boys like to play&lt;br /&gt;will splashes in puddles&lt;br /&gt;of dead rain&lt;br /&gt;boys like to&lt;br /&gt;explore far&lt;br /&gt;and near&lt;br /&gt;boys must be taught&lt;br /&gt;to pull back and wash&lt;br /&gt;the foreskin&lt;br /&gt;boys will walk&lt;br /&gt;the tight rope&lt;br /&gt;of what it means&lt;br /&gt;to be a boy&lt;br /&gt;and they will&lt;br /&gt;shadow box&lt;br /&gt;and wrestler&lt;br /&gt;with their friends&lt;br /&gt;boys will pick a fight&lt;br /&gt;to see how&lt;br /&gt;far they can push&lt;br /&gt;and pull the hair&lt;br /&gt;of little girls&lt;br /&gt;to say I like you&lt;br /&gt;boys will shoot birds&lt;br /&gt;with their bebe guns&lt;br /&gt;and break windows&lt;br /&gt;with their balls&lt;br /&gt;all in all&lt;br /&gt;boys are made by&lt;br /&gt;and boys are taught&lt;br /&gt;that man knows best&lt;br /&gt;without a doubt.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-1844613175733115301?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/1844613175733115301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=1844613175733115301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1844613175733115301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/1844613175733115301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/05/boys-are.html' title='Boys are'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6377676780969165498</id><published>2011-05-06T15:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-06T15:05:53.073-07:00</updated><title type='text'>05-06-2011</title><content type='html'>A coffee cup beside the night stand&lt;br /&gt;holding up night&lt;br /&gt;for all to see in its shadows&lt;br /&gt;what there will be&lt;br /&gt;things that have lost their forms&lt;br /&gt;your underwear thrown cross the chair&lt;br /&gt;your limbs half hidden beneath the sheets&lt;br /&gt;my spring lover your warmth is&lt;br /&gt;by the comfort of our bed.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the crowd&lt;br /&gt;along the street&lt;br /&gt;for the gay pride parade&lt;br /&gt;i see them wve&lt;br /&gt;to a drag queen&lt;br /&gt;who legs needs a shave&lt;br /&gt;the illusion is not complete&lt;br /&gt;for me to go hunting&lt;br /&gt;to meet an endless man&lt;br /&gt;to carry my love of peacefulness&lt;br /&gt;he illusion is half baked&lt;br /&gt;when a four o clock shadow&lt;br /&gt;shadows the face&lt;br /&gt;this one dressed in black&lt;br /&gt;a legion of falsies&lt;br /&gt;glued to her chest&lt;br /&gt;a dog walks by&lt;br /&gt;ten an old man with a cane&lt;br /&gt;the church bells rings&lt;br /&gt;a pale tree tremble&lt;br /&gt;in the lost winds&lt;br /&gt;i am earnest earth&lt;br /&gt;my absolutely impossibility&lt;br /&gt;to save when wars rages&lt;br /&gt;the respect the wagging war&lt;br /&gt;and the young salutes the flag&lt;br /&gt;i will not drag their lives away&lt;br /&gt;when war is chained&lt;br /&gt;to the wallet like&lt;br /&gt;a ball and chain&lt;br /&gt;God once showed&lt;br /&gt;the way of ways&lt;br /&gt;me i am the key&lt;br /&gt;I ware a paper hat&lt;br /&gt;he specks like he is a shadow&lt;br /&gt;in want to cry and see&lt;br /&gt;what of earth can we call our&lt;br /&gt;distanced for commonality.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When he passed me&lt;br /&gt;i looked back to see&lt;br /&gt;that his ass is as fine&lt;br /&gt;that of Sidney Portia&lt;br /&gt;tight in Lilies of the failed field &lt;br /&gt;black men in black and white&lt;br /&gt;are enhance with a dark glow&lt;br /&gt;beyond the meat&lt;br /&gt;of their flesh&lt;br /&gt;on the table for a blow&lt;br /&gt;the feast for my eyes&lt;br /&gt;black men love their sex&lt;br /&gt;and have grown accustom to&lt;br /&gt;the struggle against&lt;br /&gt;both church and state of&lt;br /&gt;what it means to be black and gay.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up my anus&lt;br /&gt;you will find&lt;br /&gt;majestic design&lt;br /&gt;there are diamonds&lt;br /&gt;the stone of April&lt;br /&gt;you will find&lt;br /&gt;much to explore&lt;br /&gt;what caret I contain&lt;br /&gt;my anus carry &lt;br /&gt;the scrofula&lt;br /&gt;for my man.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i am without&lt;br /&gt;a lover&lt;br /&gt;i am without&lt;br /&gt;a man&lt;br /&gt;immense is my struggle&lt;br /&gt;non sacred my yes and cans&lt;br /&gt;my nakedness goes darkly7&lt;br /&gt;down the salt sea shore&lt;br /&gt;my blood is beautiful&lt;br /&gt;good nature as&lt;br /&gt;a waiting arrow&lt;br /&gt;ready to explore&lt;br /&gt;i am a primal secret&lt;br /&gt;i am adored and adorn&lt;br /&gt;by chromosomes&lt;br /&gt;coalescing expectation&lt;br /&gt;behind the barred door&lt;br /&gt;the rain is shooting hard&lt;br /&gt;the electric  icteric swimmers&lt;br /&gt;are ready at the mark&lt;br /&gt;the clouds are half as stubborn&lt;br /&gt;as the all embracing dark&lt;br /&gt;thunder is deliriums&lt;br /&gt;the moon metamorphose&lt;br /&gt;the irresistible fountain&lt;br /&gt;of my erect dick&lt;br /&gt;severance with under tolls&lt;br /&gt;of spirituality trammel&lt;br /&gt;of the unknown sky&lt;br /&gt;I have no needs for adolescent&lt;br /&gt;to stiffen my sexual dreams&lt;br /&gt;they are too young to satisfy me.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he caught me&lt;br /&gt;staring at him&lt;br /&gt;I smiled he blushed&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I followed&lt;br /&gt;the curve down&lt;br /&gt;of where the &lt;br /&gt;crown of his butt&lt;br /&gt;goes to meet&lt;br /&gt;the back thigh&lt;br /&gt;a shadow there.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he said that&lt;br /&gt;i smelt as&lt;br /&gt;Good as I looked&lt;br /&gt;because I wasn't&lt;br /&gt;waring any cologne&lt;br /&gt;just the scent&lt;br /&gt;between my legs&lt;br /&gt;and under my arm.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it's hard work&lt;br /&gt;to be in love&lt;br /&gt;with me&lt;br /&gt;i reguie&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If i had&lt;br /&gt;a stud farm\&lt;br /&gt;I would puck&lt;br /&gt;the slender&lt;br /&gt;ones themselves one tense&lt;br /&gt;of muscles&lt;br /&gt;on narrow bones.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6377676780969165498?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6377676780969165498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6377676780969165498' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6377676780969165498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6377676780969165498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/05/05-06-2011.html' title='05-06-2011'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4865626613886954273</id><published>2011-04-14T18:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T18:33:14.892-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I put a ring on it</title><content type='html'>I put a ring on it&lt;br /&gt;yes that pussy is all mines&lt;br /&gt;no one else shall smell&lt;br /&gt;the fishiness of her&lt;br /&gt;pussy divine&lt;br /&gt;I put a ring on it&lt;br /&gt;yes that dick is mines&lt;br /&gt;no one else can ring his cock&lt;br /&gt;like this hole divine&lt;br /&gt;I put a ring on  it&lt;br /&gt;yes that ass is mines&lt;br /&gt;no one else shall sweat&lt;br /&gt;the musk of his ass divine&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4865626613886954273?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4865626613886954273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4865626613886954273' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4865626613886954273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4865626613886954273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-put-ring-on-it.html' title='I put a ring on it'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3073370387570105887</id><published>2011-04-14T18:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T18:30:31.178-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Up my anus</title><content type='html'>Up my anus&lt;br /&gt;you will find&lt;br /&gt;majesty sexually deigned&lt;br /&gt;there are diamonds&lt;br /&gt;the stone of April&lt;br /&gt;you will find&lt;br /&gt;much to explore&lt;br /&gt;what carats I contain&lt;br /&gt;my anus carry&lt;br /&gt;the scrofula for my man&lt;br /&gt;it have burn down&lt;br /&gt;the hysteria’s teeth&lt;br /&gt;and ware the impetuous&lt;br /&gt;missionary position&lt;br /&gt;around my neck&lt;br /&gt;I am a speck of duration coal&lt;br /&gt;an endless major pose&lt;br /&gt;before the black bold&lt;br /&gt;men who woo my heart&lt;br /&gt;I am the vengeance unfolded&lt;br /&gt;the black head of my taste&lt;br /&gt;is the king's staff I carry&lt;br /&gt;my anus remember&lt;br /&gt;who will fit the gorgeous&lt;br /&gt;railways of my slit&lt;br /&gt;the munificence of my ways&lt;br /&gt;the thrush hole that tighten&lt;br /&gt;in a sexual grip&lt;br /&gt;the blowhole the back door&lt;br /&gt;of old black blues men&lt;br /&gt;the lingual tool at my use&lt;br /&gt;coconut cream runs down my thigh&lt;br /&gt;madden through the corner of my eye&lt;br /&gt;I resend the sinister&lt;br /&gt;thickness and he glides within&lt;br /&gt;sex makes a radiance of my face&lt;br /&gt;and my nakedness is pleased&lt;br /&gt;I am tied to earth by&lt;br /&gt;a dick of an umbilicus cord&lt;br /&gt;grumbling with an excellent song to sign&lt;br /&gt;my milky white tugging tool tied with a ring&lt;br /&gt;I am overflowing with backwater&lt;br /&gt;of my rushing dreams&lt;br /&gt;I use no plumb&lt;br /&gt;of a milking machine&lt;br /&gt;to leak out my sons&lt;br /&gt;to be in my dreams&lt;br /&gt;the armor-plated chest&lt;br /&gt;that is my muscles&lt;br /&gt;trilobites in half light&lt;br /&gt;swollen thick in mirrors&lt;br /&gt;vigorous as tender&lt;br /&gt;my pouch of irrepressible&lt;br /&gt;joy opens to the cause&lt;br /&gt;corpuscular taste&lt;br /&gt;and I want not a seed&lt;br /&gt;nothing ripe but dick heads&lt;br /&gt;swollen in my dreams&lt;br /&gt;the vinous word&lt;br /&gt;descry my honor&lt;br /&gt;descry the reptile&lt;br /&gt;motion of my member&lt;br /&gt;because it is a rusty dark dick&lt;br /&gt;that quiver at the moment of penetration&lt;br /&gt;in me is a nocturnal love&lt;br /&gt;that never sleeps&lt;br /&gt;in me my anus is wild&lt;br /&gt;to welcome in the metamorphosis&lt;br /&gt;call to arm with a smile&lt;br /&gt;I never use my dick&lt;br /&gt;as a sisal sword&lt;br /&gt;never wishing to love&lt;br /&gt;a younger boy&lt;br /&gt;never fight to shoot my seeds&lt;br /&gt;I am not infantile in my sexual needs&lt;br /&gt;for cum thick as&lt;br /&gt;sour cream&lt;br /&gt;I am top soil&lt;br /&gt;where you can plant&lt;br /&gt;your sexual dreams&lt;br /&gt;I am the falcon that&lt;br /&gt;fly between the rain&lt;br /&gt;the vivid flesh&lt;br /&gt;the cerebral cortex&lt;br /&gt;the contours of my ass&lt;br /&gt;is a beautiful hill&lt;br /&gt;of feast and function&lt;br /&gt;blissful is my tenderness&lt;br /&gt;rock hard my dick&lt;br /&gt;with soft plasticity&lt;br /&gt;with adolescent pre cum&lt;br /&gt;remembered for its&lt;br /&gt;muscular effort&lt;br /&gt;the thorny pluck&lt;br /&gt;of ready to pick lust&lt;br /&gt;the ancestral silent&lt;br /&gt;of dusk that blaze&lt;br /&gt;a crackle of summons&lt;br /&gt;as my dark inheritance&lt;br /&gt;victorious in zeal&lt;br /&gt;resplendent and proud&lt;br /&gt;I am the serpent's eye&lt;br /&gt;the thunderstruck&lt;br /&gt;thunderbolts that cracks&lt;br /&gt;the anclis of a&lt;br /&gt;hallow of carcasses&lt;br /&gt;let your dick&lt;br /&gt;slumber in my anus&lt;br /&gt;let me feel all of your weight&lt;br /&gt;pound against my ass&lt;br /&gt;as riding a rail ride&lt;br /&gt;me full of sexual laughter.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3073370387570105887?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3073370387570105887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3073370387570105887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3073370387570105887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3073370387570105887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/04/up-my-anus.html' title='Up my anus'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8693383018697978980</id><published>2011-04-14T18:21:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T18:21:46.997-07:00</updated><title type='text'>O what matter of man</title><content type='html'>O what matter of man&lt;br /&gt;my fancy seeks&lt;br /&gt;what lovely face&lt;br /&gt;and stature with&lt;br /&gt;a bit of fat&lt;br /&gt;what size his continence&lt;br /&gt;what kinda man relish&lt;br /&gt;my heart with wooing words&lt;br /&gt;words and perceived&lt;br /&gt;sexual wants&lt;br /&gt;I know not but&lt;br /&gt;take them as them come&lt;br /&gt;for all black men&lt;br /&gt;are beautiful&lt;br /&gt;under the gracious sun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8693383018697978980?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8693383018697978980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8693383018697978980' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8693383018697978980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8693383018697978980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/04/o-what-matter-of-man.html' title='O what matter of man'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8362448558154447839</id><published>2011-04-14T18:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-14T18:21:02.161-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I love to love birds</title><content type='html'>I love to love birds&lt;br /&gt;of all kinds even&lt;br /&gt;the cantankerous Mockin' bird&lt;br /&gt;who harass every other birds&lt;br /&gt;and squirrels but not the brown Sparrows&lt;br /&gt;I love to bird my love&lt;br /&gt;to peck at his nipples&lt;br /&gt;and balls even when&lt;br /&gt;he is cantankerous&lt;br /&gt;his juices flows&lt;br /&gt;I love to bird my love&lt;br /&gt;feed him sunflower seeds&lt;br /&gt;and bread and chicken wings bones&lt;br /&gt;with a little bit of meat&lt;br /&gt;as if my love is a Starling&lt;br /&gt;I love to dress as a bird&lt;br /&gt;Cardinal red Bluejay blue&lt;br /&gt;Carry yellow and Black bird's&lt;br /&gt;iridescence darkness as my lover&lt;br /&gt;as if I was made of plumes&lt;br /&gt;I love to love birds&lt;br /&gt;who shy away from my&lt;br /&gt;approach as if I&lt;br /&gt;had in mind bird's nest soup&lt;br /&gt;or squah  or pigeon stew&lt;br /&gt;I love to love&lt;br /&gt;as if it was a singular cantankerous joy&lt;br /&gt;sometimes cantankerous&lt;br /&gt;with erect nipples and&lt;br /&gt;drawn up balls that&lt;br /&gt;flush sons and would be daughters&lt;br /&gt;through the pee hole&lt;br /&gt;I love to love birds&lt;br /&gt;the way that they&lt;br /&gt;perch beneath the out door faucet&lt;br /&gt;and mine it for a drop of water&lt;br /&gt;the way that the Robin&lt;br /&gt;lands near when I am over turning the lawn&lt;br /&gt;his eyes ever watchful of worms&lt;br /&gt;their bird's brain&lt;br /&gt;knows that man can &lt;br /&gt;be a source of food&lt;br /&gt;the vultures of their ways&lt;br /&gt;will not waste your meat in the grave&lt;br /&gt;the way they rub their&lt;br /&gt;breast in the dry dirt&lt;br /&gt;is like my lover in the&lt;br /&gt;shower who would&lt;br /&gt;not give me his musk&lt;br /&gt;because he was upset with me&lt;br /&gt;I love to love birds&lt;br /&gt;the Little Bee-eater&lt;br /&gt;the Red and Yellow&lt;br /&gt;Barbet the Snake Eagle&lt;br /&gt;the Maasai Ostrich long of neck&lt;br /&gt;flightless wings&lt;br /&gt;largest bird as large&lt;br /&gt;as my lover's love for me&lt;br /&gt;I love to love birds&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8362448558154447839?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8362448558154447839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8362448558154447839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8362448558154447839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8362448558154447839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-love-to-love-birds.html' title='I love to love birds'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7104173032778482226</id><published>2011-02-14T16:53:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T16:53:26.748-08:00</updated><title type='text'>He</title><content type='html'>He dropped&lt;br /&gt;his draws&lt;br /&gt;and learned&lt;br /&gt;his lesson&lt;br /&gt;I told him&lt;br /&gt;that I was&lt;br /&gt;a rough ride&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7104173032778482226?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7104173032778482226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7104173032778482226' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7104173032778482226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7104173032778482226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/he.html' title='He'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2306272373021170204</id><published>2011-02-14T16:52:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T16:52:18.173-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Come fo ta</title><content type='html'>Come fo ta self&lt;br /&gt;save my soul&lt;br /&gt;sure footed&lt;br /&gt;throws of feet fall&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo to self&lt;br /&gt;save my soul&lt;br /&gt;black man Settian bold&lt;br /&gt;gate keeper growin' old&lt;br /&gt;God smiled his grin&lt;br /&gt;wide as the sea&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo ta save me&lt;br /&gt;he be tha thang&lt;br /&gt;tha lovin ring&lt;br /&gt;of cock ring&lt;br /&gt;wrung round&lt;br /&gt;my thing he be&lt;br /&gt;black as mississippi coal&lt;br /&gt;bold lips, bold nose&lt;br /&gt;he be lovin me&lt;br /&gt;lik I's his king&lt;br /&gt;.comin' fo ta&lt;br /&gt;save my ancient soul&lt;br /&gt;he be son&lt;br /&gt;of the first man&lt;br /&gt;mad desires&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo ta&lt;br /&gt;save my soul&lt;br /&gt;he be sure stance&lt;br /&gt;and steel will&lt;br /&gt;to pile his nuts&lt;br /&gt;as a meal&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo tra&lt;br /&gt;save my sexual soul&lt;br /&gt;he be rock-fire&lt;br /&gt;home hung high&lt;br /&gt;rebellious fellow&lt;br /&gt;by and by&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo to save&lt;br /&gt;my soul he be&lt;br /&gt;lovely by a mile&lt;br /&gt;hung in hunger&lt;br /&gt;to swallow my thick&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo ta save&lt;br /&gt;my sould he be&lt;br /&gt;elder mainstay&lt;br /&gt;seldon low&lt;br /&gt;comin' fo ta&lt;br /&gt;save my soul&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2306272373021170204?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2306272373021170204/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2306272373021170204' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2306272373021170204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2306272373021170204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/come-fo-ta.html' title='Come fo ta'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3667569321256323534</id><published>2011-02-13T10:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T10:37:11.527-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Lewdly he lay</title><content type='html'>lewdly he lay&lt;br /&gt;enticing me&lt;br /&gt;to undo his belt&lt;br /&gt;I bid you my main man&lt;br /&gt;to maiden my heart&lt;br /&gt;to subject me&lt;br /&gt;with my lust&lt;br /&gt;I am already wet&lt;br /&gt;I giant in&lt;br /&gt;my needs to gain&lt;br /&gt;your rocks full&lt;br /&gt;in my mouth&lt;br /&gt;as a rein round&lt;br /&gt;my tongue&lt;br /&gt;I am better&lt;br /&gt;from the back&lt;br /&gt;my vertical tool&lt;br /&gt;my pipe my&lt;br /&gt;bidder's call&lt;br /&gt;to pay the price&lt;br /&gt;of a blow in&lt;br /&gt;the shades&lt;br /&gt;a tasty burly man&lt;br /&gt;between the abutment&lt;br /&gt;of my ass&lt;br /&gt;lewdly he lay&lt;br /&gt;chocked with desires&lt;br /&gt;as to sweat musk&lt;br /&gt;more masculine then&lt;br /&gt;any cologne&lt;br /&gt;the fore-motion&lt;br /&gt;of his thrust&lt;br /&gt;his dips and&lt;br /&gt;round motions&lt;br /&gt;his discharge&lt;br /&gt;that drips down my leg&lt;br /&gt;his sweat that&lt;br /&gt;drops into mine&lt;br /&gt;his black smile of&lt;br /&gt;stratification of&lt;br /&gt;a job well done&lt;br /&gt;a sanctification&lt;br /&gt;of my satisfaction&lt;br /&gt;of the heart he have won&lt;br /&gt;my pride my&lt;br /&gt;squat with&lt;br /&gt;all the motion&lt;br /&gt;against gravity shoots&lt;br /&gt;across the bed as&lt;br /&gt;if sons unborn&lt;br /&gt;swimming for the egg&lt;br /&gt;I call him&lt;br /&gt;Prick Daddy&lt;br /&gt;for his sexual hunger&lt;br /&gt;his lewd lustily&lt;br /&gt;hunger and&lt;br /&gt;the comfort in which&lt;br /&gt;he fucks my thirst&lt;br /&gt;groping my dark flesh&lt;br /&gt;his sexual appetite&lt;br /&gt;is strong enough&lt;br /&gt;to stiffen the bent&lt;br /&gt;dicks of the Gods.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3667569321256323534?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3667569321256323534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3667569321256323534' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3667569321256323534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3667569321256323534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/lewdly-he-lay.html' title='Lewdly he lay'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8060175783594028034</id><published>2011-02-07T17:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T17:44:12.026-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I wet his draws</title><content type='html'>I wet his draws&lt;br /&gt;with my tongue&lt;br /&gt;still the lovin'&lt;br /&gt;was not done&lt;br /&gt;I wiped his balls&lt;br /&gt;of all their sweat&lt;br /&gt;still it was&lt;br /&gt;not time to rest&lt;br /&gt;I bent my back&lt;br /&gt;to the fuck&lt;br /&gt;still I did&lt;br /&gt;not come&lt;br /&gt;I laid beside&lt;br /&gt;him and slept&lt;br /&gt;still he fucked&lt;br /&gt;me in my dreams&lt;br /&gt;wet with my sleep&lt;br /&gt;it seem that&lt;br /&gt;too much of &lt;br /&gt;a good thing&lt;br /&gt;is sometimes&lt;br /&gt;just enough.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8060175783594028034?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8060175783594028034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8060175783594028034' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8060175783594028034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8060175783594028034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-wet-his-draws.html' title='I wet his draws'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4269516952720983751</id><published>2011-02-07T17:42:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T17:42:55.658-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The last time</title><content type='html'>The last time&lt;br /&gt;That I saw him&lt;br /&gt;He was writing&lt;br /&gt;His name with piss&lt;br /&gt;In the new snow&lt;br /&gt;That malted a crooked caverns&lt;br /&gt;Of running pissing&lt;br /&gt;Outside of the liquor store&lt;br /&gt;Rough trade with&lt;br /&gt;Rough hands and&lt;br /&gt;Stubble of beard&lt;br /&gt;The last time &lt;br /&gt;That I saw him he&lt;br /&gt;Was bumming change&lt;br /&gt;In front of the high school&lt;br /&gt;Being the man he is&lt;br /&gt;He withstood the&lt;br /&gt;Thunder snow of&lt;br /&gt;East St. Louis where&lt;br /&gt;St. Louis thugs dump&lt;br /&gt;Their bodies&lt;br /&gt;He hasn't lost  his historical&lt;br /&gt;Renegade nature&lt;br /&gt;He dirty his hands&lt;br /&gt;With the business&lt;br /&gt;Of the streets&lt;br /&gt;He'll sell you his thighs&lt;br /&gt;And drink your whiskey&lt;br /&gt;And piss it in the snow&lt;br /&gt;Going home.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4269516952720983751?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4269516952720983751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4269516952720983751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4269516952720983751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4269516952720983751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-time.html' title='The last time'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4345102568322896063</id><published>2011-02-07T17:42:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:08:34.436-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring men</title><content type='html'>Spring men&lt;br /&gt;shoot lovely lush&lt;br /&gt;of brush haired&lt;br /&gt;with egg eyes&lt;br /&gt;and huts for nostrils&lt;br /&gt;and swamps for lips&lt;br /&gt;and weeds that&lt;br /&gt;are flowers and&lt;br /&gt;fair flings of loves&lt;br /&gt;lovely spring men&lt;br /&gt;lust for the fuck&lt;br /&gt;with echoing touches&lt;br /&gt;lingering long&lt;br /&gt;Crystal Christ like their love&lt;br /&gt;strong and full&lt;br /&gt;of thunder and wet snow&lt;br /&gt;and old growth&lt;br /&gt;new again in their stand&lt;br /&gt;upon the branch&lt;br /&gt;spring men are&lt;br /&gt;April survivors&lt;br /&gt;to hear their&lt;br /&gt;love speak of it&lt;br /&gt;grassy brush of pear tree&lt;br /&gt;new tender leaves and&lt;br /&gt;buds of ready nuts&lt;br /&gt;to pop their flowers&lt;br /&gt;of daughters and sons&lt;br /&gt;little swimmers ready&lt;br /&gt;at the mark juicy men&lt;br /&gt;lush with ready lust&lt;br /&gt;and stormy thunder talk&lt;br /&gt;let spring men&lt;br /&gt;soak you up&lt;br /&gt;of deserving good&lt;br /&gt;let them depend within your bloom&lt;br /&gt;and fling to high heaven with&lt;br /&gt;baby thrush singing&lt;br /&gt;to the blue let&lt;br /&gt;spring men strike&lt;br /&gt;you with their love&lt;br /&gt;their may love made&lt;br /&gt;on Mayday let their&lt;br /&gt;love rush riot run in you..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4345102568322896063?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4345102568322896063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4345102568322896063' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4345102568322896063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4345102568322896063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/spring-men_07.html' title='Spring men'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4217141306097730248</id><published>2011-02-07T17:42:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T17:42:18.137-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring men</title><content type='html'>Spring men&lt;br /&gt;shoot lovely lush&lt;br /&gt;of brush haired&lt;br /&gt;with egg eyes&lt;br /&gt;and huts for nostrils&lt;br /&gt;and swamps for lips&lt;br /&gt;and weeds that&lt;br /&gt;are flowers and&lt;br /&gt;fair flings of loves&lt;br /&gt;lovely spring men&lt;br /&gt;lust for the fuck&lt;br /&gt;with echoing touches&lt;br /&gt;lingering long&lt;br /&gt;Crystal Christ like their love&lt;br /&gt;strong and full&lt;br /&gt;of thunder and wet snow&lt;br /&gt;and old growth&lt;br /&gt;new again in their stand&lt;br /&gt;upon the branch&lt;br /&gt;spring men are&lt;br /&gt;April survivors&lt;br /&gt;to hear their&lt;br /&gt;love speak of it&lt;br /&gt;grassy brush of pear tree&lt;br /&gt;new tender leaves and&lt;br /&gt;buds of ready nuts&lt;br /&gt;to pop their flowers&lt;br /&gt;of daughters and sons&lt;br /&gt;little swimmers ready&lt;br /&gt;at the mark juicy men&lt;br /&gt;lush with ready lust&lt;br /&gt;and stormy thunder talk&lt;br /&gt;let spring men&lt;br /&gt;soak you up&lt;br /&gt;of deserving good&lt;br /&gt;let them depend within your bloom&lt;br /&gt;and fling to high heaven with&lt;br /&gt;baby thrush singing&lt;br /&gt;to the blue let&lt;br /&gt;spring men strike&lt;br /&gt;you with their love&lt;br /&gt;their may love made&lt;br /&gt;on Mayday let their&lt;br /&gt;love rush riot run in you..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4217141306097730248?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4217141306097730248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4217141306097730248' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4217141306097730248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4217141306097730248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/spring-men.html' title='Spring men'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-3374666201484738281</id><published>2011-02-07T17:41:00.005-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:08:34.346-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Weeds of me</title><content type='html'>Weeds of me&lt;br /&gt;would be flowers&lt;br /&gt;of who I am&lt;br /&gt;elopement slumbered&lt;br /&gt;gaze of days daylight&lt;br /&gt;prosperity trembling&lt;br /&gt;at its best loaded&lt;br /&gt;with plunging&lt;br /&gt;bolted back the word of my hands&lt;br /&gt;digging in the dark&lt;br /&gt;for some dim light&lt;br /&gt;irregularly&lt;br /&gt;like digging for desires&lt;br /&gt;down in the ditch that&lt;br /&gt;died slow of cries and&lt;br /&gt;God forsaken whys&lt;br /&gt;my scars protects me&lt;br /&gt;from the burly&lt;br /&gt;wind winning its &lt;br /&gt;way true home&lt;br /&gt;being followed&lt;br /&gt;by the moon&lt;br /&gt;my hardness is harshness&lt;br /&gt;is always harnessed&lt;br /&gt;to my sense of wonder&lt;br /&gt;my weed's ways&lt;br /&gt;growing in the cracks&lt;br /&gt;clad all of my gladness&lt;br /&gt;and time's breath&lt;br /&gt;is a leisure growth&lt;br /&gt;toward the death&lt;br /&gt;that I can never know&lt;br /&gt;and gay gray attire&lt;br /&gt;of ideals on how&lt;br /&gt;to be the weed man&lt;br /&gt;who suppliers the Gods&lt;br /&gt;with high hopes&lt;br /&gt;of worshiping the insufficiencies&lt;br /&gt;of souls blessed&lt;br /&gt;by breath by the busyness of life&lt;br /&gt;who has no time&lt;br /&gt;for no one&lt;br /&gt;weeds mines&lt;br /&gt;grace that lag&lt;br /&gt;between the flesh flash&lt;br /&gt;fir forecast the burning of things&lt;br /&gt;the smoke I stroke&lt;br /&gt;the embers of me&lt;br /&gt;and leisure into&lt;br /&gt;a piece of peace&lt;br /&gt;I slumber spread legs&lt;br /&gt;starry to do the work of the bed&lt;br /&gt;I sow weeds&lt;br /&gt;into the balance&lt;br /&gt;I spread eagle&lt;br /&gt;at sea level&lt;br /&gt;I wet wood of&lt;br /&gt;brittle yellow&lt;br /&gt;dappled as some&lt;br /&gt;daffodil's shadow&lt;br /&gt;I am a growth&lt;br /&gt;wild as weeds&lt;br /&gt;as flowers of leaves&lt;br /&gt;and trees and&lt;br /&gt;laughter’s last hum&lt;br /&gt;I am only a theory&lt;br /&gt;of what truth means&lt;br /&gt;a brain boy a head whole&lt;br /&gt;exhibition I am&lt;br /&gt;half of the children&lt;br /&gt;that will not submit&lt;br /&gt;a fleet of wheat&lt;br /&gt;a gay blade of&lt;br /&gt;dusk and golden&lt;br /&gt;rods baying at the wind&lt;br /&gt;wild water is my wetness&lt;br /&gt;inversnaid fleece foam&lt;br /&gt;drowning in a sea&lt;br /&gt;of ferns fiddle heads&lt;br /&gt;tightness is the wilderness&lt;br /&gt;I play a weed by any&lt;br /&gt;name will still&lt;br /&gt;flower its smell as&lt;br /&gt;sweet as the musk&lt;br /&gt;of my might&lt;br /&gt;braes my groin&lt;br /&gt;and I sing the sexual burn&lt;br /&gt;of digging into&lt;br /&gt;the flesh of things&lt;br /&gt;of earth things&lt;br /&gt;in golden groves and&lt;br /&gt;nature's comforts&lt;br /&gt;nature's roguish&lt;br /&gt;tediousness of tricks&lt;br /&gt;of a variation on the theme of life&lt;br /&gt;weed tongue&lt;br /&gt;older then the flowers&lt;br /&gt;weed weep the wan wood&lt;br /&gt;weed hung like imp's&lt;br /&gt;rúng of men who go to seed&lt;br /&gt;are laced to witness&lt;br /&gt;the joy of flower boys&lt;br /&gt;who beckon to be loved&lt;br /&gt;tender men of lost Jacks&lt;br /&gt;with bit lips and hips&lt;br /&gt;that dip in the fuck&lt;br /&gt;blushed men without&lt;br /&gt;wedlock's duty men&lt;br /&gt;grown into their skin&lt;br /&gt;men anointed&lt;br /&gt;by their impatient sex&lt;br /&gt;to guard the gate men&lt;br /&gt;of weed's big boned&lt;br /&gt;in their handsomeness&lt;br /&gt;heavy as sweet reprieve&lt;br /&gt;boisterous men elder&lt;br /&gt;to the cause&lt;br /&gt;young John's of men&lt;br /&gt;who live their&lt;br /&gt;life with a kiss.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-3374666201484738281?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3374666201484738281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=3374666201484738281' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3374666201484738281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/3374666201484738281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/weeds-of-me_07.html' title='Weeds of me'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7018982544948332691</id><published>2011-02-07T17:41:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T17:41:18.115-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Weeds of me</title><content type='html'>Weeds of me&lt;br /&gt;would be flowers&lt;br /&gt;of who I am&lt;br /&gt;elopement slumbered&lt;br /&gt;gaze of days daylight&lt;br /&gt;prosperity trembling&lt;br /&gt;at its best loaded&lt;br /&gt;with plunging&lt;br /&gt;bolted back the word of my hands&lt;br /&gt;digging in the dark&lt;br /&gt;for some dim light&lt;br /&gt;irregularly&lt;br /&gt;like digging for desires&lt;br /&gt;down in the ditch that&lt;br /&gt;died slow of cries and&lt;br /&gt;God forsaken whys&lt;br /&gt;my scars protects me&lt;br /&gt;from the burly&lt;br /&gt;wind winning its &lt;br /&gt;way true home&lt;br /&gt;being followed&lt;br /&gt;by the moon&lt;br /&gt;my hardness is harshness&lt;br /&gt;is always harnessed&lt;br /&gt;to my sense of wonder&lt;br /&gt;my weed's ways&lt;br /&gt;growing in the cracks&lt;br /&gt;clad all of my gladness&lt;br /&gt;and time's breath&lt;br /&gt;is a leisure growth&lt;br /&gt;toward the death&lt;br /&gt;that I can never know&lt;br /&gt;and gay gray attire&lt;br /&gt;of ideals on how&lt;br /&gt;to be the weed man&lt;br /&gt;who suppliers the Gods&lt;br /&gt;with high hopes&lt;br /&gt;of worshiping the insufficiencies&lt;br /&gt;of souls blessed&lt;br /&gt;by breath by the busyness of life&lt;br /&gt;who has no time&lt;br /&gt;for no one&lt;br /&gt;weeds mines&lt;br /&gt;grace that lag&lt;br /&gt;between the flesh flash&lt;br /&gt;fir forecast the burning of things&lt;br /&gt;the smoke I stroke&lt;br /&gt;the embers of me&lt;br /&gt;and leisure into&lt;br /&gt;a piece of peace&lt;br /&gt;I slumber spread legs&lt;br /&gt;starry to do the work of the bed&lt;br /&gt;I sow weeds&lt;br /&gt;into the balance&lt;br /&gt;I spread eagle&lt;br /&gt;at sea level&lt;br /&gt;I wet wood of&lt;br /&gt;brittle yellow&lt;br /&gt;dappled as some&lt;br /&gt;daffodil's shadow&lt;br /&gt;I am a growth&lt;br /&gt;wild as weeds&lt;br /&gt;as flowers of leaves&lt;br /&gt;and trees and&lt;br /&gt;laughter’s last hum&lt;br /&gt;I am only a theory&lt;br /&gt;of what truth means&lt;br /&gt;a brain boy a head whole&lt;br /&gt;exhibition I am&lt;br /&gt;half of the children&lt;br /&gt;that will not submit&lt;br /&gt;a fleet of wheat&lt;br /&gt;a gay blade of&lt;br /&gt;dusk and golden&lt;br /&gt;rods baying at the wind&lt;br /&gt;wild water is my wetness&lt;br /&gt;inversnaid fleece foam&lt;br /&gt;drowning in a sea&lt;br /&gt;of ferns fiddle heads&lt;br /&gt;tightness is the wilderness&lt;br /&gt;I play a weed by any&lt;br /&gt;name will still&lt;br /&gt;flower its smell as&lt;br /&gt;sweet as the musk&lt;br /&gt;of my might&lt;br /&gt;braes my groin&lt;br /&gt;and I sing the sexual burn&lt;br /&gt;of digging into&lt;br /&gt;the flesh of things&lt;br /&gt;of earth things&lt;br /&gt;in golden groves and&lt;br /&gt;nature's comforts&lt;br /&gt;nature's roguish&lt;br /&gt;tediousness of tricks&lt;br /&gt;of a variation on the theme of life&lt;br /&gt;weed tongue&lt;br /&gt;older then the flowers&lt;br /&gt;weed weep the wan wood&lt;br /&gt;weed hung like imp's&lt;br /&gt;rúng of men who go to seed&lt;br /&gt;are laced to witness&lt;br /&gt;the joy of flower boys&lt;br /&gt;who beckon to be loved&lt;br /&gt;tender men of lost Jacks&lt;br /&gt;with bit lips and hips&lt;br /&gt;that dip in the fuck&lt;br /&gt;blushed men without&lt;br /&gt;wedlock's duty men&lt;br /&gt;grown into their skin&lt;br /&gt;men anointed&lt;br /&gt;by their impatient sex&lt;br /&gt;to guard the gate men&lt;br /&gt;of weed's big boned&lt;br /&gt;in their handsomeness&lt;br /&gt;heavy as sweet reprieve&lt;br /&gt;boisterous men elder&lt;br /&gt;to the cause&lt;br /&gt;young John's of men&lt;br /&gt;who live their&lt;br /&gt;life with a kiss.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7018982544948332691?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7018982544948332691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7018982544948332691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7018982544948332691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7018982544948332691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/weeds-of-me.html' title='Weeds of me'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-641981375784990979</id><published>2011-02-07T17:41:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:08:34.479-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Weeds of me</title><content type='html'>Weeds of me&lt;br /&gt;would be flowers&lt;br /&gt;of who I am&lt;br /&gt;elopement slumbered&lt;br /&gt;gaze of days daylight&lt;br /&gt;prosperity trembling&lt;br /&gt;at its best loaded&lt;br /&gt;with plunging&lt;br /&gt;bolted back the word of my hands&lt;br /&gt;digging in the dark&lt;br /&gt;for some dim light&lt;br /&gt;irregularly&lt;br /&gt;like digging for desires&lt;br /&gt;down in the ditch that&lt;br /&gt;died slow of cries and&lt;br /&gt;God forsaken whys&lt;br /&gt;my scars protects me&lt;br /&gt;from the burly&lt;br /&gt;wind winning its &lt;br /&gt;way true home&lt;br /&gt;being followed&lt;br /&gt;by the moon&lt;br /&gt;my hardness is harshness&lt;br /&gt;is always harnessed&lt;br /&gt;to my sense of wonder&lt;br /&gt;my weed's ways&lt;br /&gt;growing in the cracks&lt;br /&gt;clad all of my gladness&lt;br /&gt;and time's breath&lt;br /&gt;is a leisure growth&lt;br /&gt;toward the death&lt;br /&gt;that I can never know&lt;br /&gt;and gay gray attire&lt;br /&gt;of ideals on how&lt;br /&gt;to be the weed man&lt;br /&gt;who suppliers the Gods&lt;br /&gt;with high hopes&lt;br /&gt;of worshiping the insufficiencies&lt;br /&gt;of souls blessed&lt;br /&gt;by breath by the busyness of life&lt;br /&gt;who has no time&lt;br /&gt;for no one&lt;br /&gt;weeds mines&lt;br /&gt;grace that lag&lt;br /&gt;between the flesh flash&lt;br /&gt;fir forecast the burning of things&lt;br /&gt;the smoke I stroke&lt;br /&gt;the embers of me&lt;br /&gt;and leisure into&lt;br /&gt;a piece of peace&lt;br /&gt;I slumber spread legs&lt;br /&gt;starry to do the work of the bed&lt;br /&gt;I sow weeds&lt;br /&gt;into the balance&lt;br /&gt;I spread eagle&lt;br /&gt;at sea level&lt;br /&gt;I wet wood of&lt;br /&gt;brittle yellow&lt;br /&gt;dappled as some&lt;br /&gt;daffodil's shadow&lt;br /&gt;I am a growth&lt;br /&gt;wild as weeds&lt;br /&gt;as flowers of leaves&lt;br /&gt;and trees and&lt;br /&gt;laughter’s last hum&lt;br /&gt;I am only a theory&lt;br /&gt;of what truth means&lt;br /&gt;a brain boy a head whole&lt;br /&gt;exhibition I am&lt;br /&gt;half of the children&lt;br /&gt;that will not submit&lt;br /&gt;a fleet of wheat&lt;br /&gt;a gay blade of&lt;br /&gt;dusk and golden&lt;br /&gt;rods baying at the wind&lt;br /&gt;wild water is my wetness&lt;br /&gt;inversnaid fleece foam&lt;br /&gt;drowning in a sea&lt;br /&gt;of ferns fiddle heads&lt;br /&gt;tightness is the wilderness&lt;br /&gt;I play a weed by any&lt;br /&gt;name will still&lt;br /&gt;flower its smell as&lt;br /&gt;sweet as the musk&lt;br /&gt;of my might&lt;br /&gt;braes my groin&lt;br /&gt;and I sing the sexual burn&lt;br /&gt;of digging into&lt;br /&gt;the flesh of things&lt;br /&gt;of earth things&lt;br /&gt;in golden groves and&lt;br /&gt;nature's comforts&lt;br /&gt;nature's roguish&lt;br /&gt;tediousness of tricks&lt;br /&gt;of a variation on the theme of life&lt;br /&gt;weed tongue&lt;br /&gt;older then the flowers&lt;br /&gt;weed weep the wan wood&lt;br /&gt;weed hung like imp's&lt;br /&gt;rúng of men who go to seed&lt;br /&gt;are laced to witness&lt;br /&gt;the joy of flower boys&lt;br /&gt;who beckon to be loved&lt;br /&gt;tender men of lost Jacks&lt;br /&gt;with bit lips and hips&lt;br /&gt;that dip in the fuck&lt;br /&gt;blushed men without&lt;br /&gt;wedlock's duty men&lt;br /&gt;grown into their skin&lt;br /&gt;men anointed&lt;br /&gt;by their impatient sex&lt;br /&gt;to guard the gate men&lt;br /&gt;of weed's big boned&lt;br /&gt;in their handsomeness&lt;br /&gt;heavy as sweet reprieve&lt;br /&gt;boisterous men elder&lt;br /&gt;to the cause&lt;br /&gt;young John's of men&lt;br /&gt;who live their&lt;br /&gt;life with a kiss.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-641981375784990979?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/641981375784990979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=641981375784990979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/641981375784990979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/641981375784990979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/02/weeds-of-me_5822.html' title='Weeds of me'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7297571789309044527</id><published>2011-01-03T17:12:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T17:12:46.762-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kuumba</title><content type='html'>Kuumba&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creativity&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Griot&lt;br /&gt;I am Poet&lt;br /&gt;I am the first fruit&lt;br /&gt;Black is my people&lt;br /&gt;Red is their struggle&lt;br /&gt;Green is their future&lt;br /&gt;By the light of their muza&lt;br /&gt;And their elders&lt;br /&gt;Loved above all things&lt;br /&gt;And mubidi of&lt;br /&gt;Their children&lt;br /&gt;Who are a donation&lt;br /&gt;To our future&lt;br /&gt;We slip libation&lt;br /&gt;From the unity cup&lt;br /&gt;To honor our ancestors&lt;br /&gt;We do as we can&lt;br /&gt;When we can&lt;br /&gt;From Joseph F. Beam&lt;br /&gt;To you to me&lt;br /&gt;To leave an inheritance&lt;br /&gt;A black legacy&lt;br /&gt;It is the creativity&lt;br /&gt;Of our children that&lt;br /&gt;Shall repair and&lt;br /&gt;Heal the world&lt;br /&gt;Yes, serudj ta&lt;br /&gt;Is there tool to&lt;br /&gt;To make the world&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful if only&lt;br /&gt;We as black folks&lt;br /&gt;Come to heal ourselves&lt;br /&gt;First if we have hope&lt;br /&gt;We are an injured people&lt;br /&gt;In America&lt;br /&gt;A people of struggle&lt;br /&gt;And self inflicted pain&lt;br /&gt;It is our God given creativity&lt;br /&gt;That have made us strong&lt;br /&gt;To carry on against all odds&lt;br /&gt;The Odu  lfa tells us&lt;br /&gt;That anyone who&lt;br /&gt;Does good&lt;br /&gt;Does it for himself&lt;br /&gt;And anyone who&lt;br /&gt;Does evil does it to himself&lt;br /&gt;Do not use your creativity&lt;br /&gt;To damage the race nor the world&lt;br /&gt;Do not use your creativity&lt;br /&gt;In the guise of religion&lt;br /&gt;To impose on others&lt;br /&gt;Do not use your creativity&lt;br /&gt;To justify unjust wars&lt;br /&gt;To seize and occupy&lt;br /&gt;Others land&lt;br /&gt;Do not use your creativity&lt;br /&gt;To justify injustice&lt;br /&gt;Do not use your creativity&lt;br /&gt;To turn away from&lt;br /&gt;The suffering and pain of the world&lt;br /&gt;Nor for unneeded material gain&lt;br /&gt;The measure of all things&lt;br /&gt;Is not to use your&lt;br /&gt;Creativity to pollute&lt;br /&gt;Plunder, deplete nor&lt;br /&gt;Destroy nature&lt;br /&gt;But use it true&lt;br /&gt;To plan the eternity&lt;br /&gt;Of our youths&lt;br /&gt;And black generations&lt;br /&gt;That shall follow you&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7297571789309044527?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7297571789309044527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7297571789309044527' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7297571789309044527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7297571789309044527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/kuumba.html' title='Kuumba'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-8240600074063270099</id><published>2011-01-03T17:10:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T17:10:31.672-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Nia</title><content type='html'>Purpose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the purpose&lt;br /&gt;Of your black skin&lt;br /&gt;What is the purpose&lt;br /&gt;Of our elders&lt;br /&gt;Rich in the knowledge&lt;br /&gt;That only age can give&lt;br /&gt;To teach the youths&lt;br /&gt;Of our black kin&lt;br /&gt;What is the purpose&lt;br /&gt;Of unity when you&lt;br /&gt;Feel yourself alone&lt;br /&gt;Go into the soup&lt;br /&gt;Kitchen where some&lt;br /&gt;Black children&lt;br /&gt;Call their second home&lt;br /&gt;Books can take you&lt;br /&gt;Only so far&lt;br /&gt;The elder's flesh&lt;br /&gt;Holds the key&lt;br /&gt;To unlock the door&lt;br /&gt;Of who you are meant to be&lt;br /&gt;And how to deal&lt;br /&gt;With adversity&lt;br /&gt;How to make your&lt;br /&gt;Way pass those&lt;br /&gt;Who would stomp you down&lt;br /&gt;Go into the convalescent homes&lt;br /&gt;Go into the schools&lt;br /&gt;Volunteer to be an ear&lt;br /&gt;To our elders&lt;br /&gt;Volunteer to teach our youths&lt;br /&gt;Leave not our elders&lt;br /&gt;To die alone&lt;br /&gt;Martin Luther King said&lt;br /&gt;“Service is the substance&lt;br /&gt;Of greatness” he served&lt;br /&gt;So surely he knew&lt;br /&gt;That to be true to yourself&lt;br /&gt;To our elders and children&lt;br /&gt;You must be true they both&lt;br /&gt;Count on you&lt;br /&gt;What is the purpose&lt;br /&gt;Of your purpose&lt;br /&gt;What is you God to you&lt;br /&gt;What are you here to do&lt;br /&gt;Go away from your&lt;br /&gt;Computers and t v&lt;br /&gt;Sit your old school&lt;br /&gt;Or hip hop ways aside&lt;br /&gt;Sat to hear the teaching&lt;br /&gt;Of our elders what need have they to lie&lt;br /&gt;See the gleam in our children eyes&lt;br /&gt;The truth my sisters and brothers&lt;br /&gt;The truth that calls your name&lt;br /&gt;Is found in the rich&lt;br /&gt;life of our elders&lt;br /&gt;Make of this our children the same&lt;br /&gt;let them teach you before they die&lt;br /&gt;What is the purpose of your life&lt;br /&gt;What is the purpose of your death&lt;br /&gt;Each of us must seek the answer&lt;br /&gt;Deep within our children and elder's breast&lt;br /&gt;Nai&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-8240600074063270099?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/8240600074063270099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=8240600074063270099' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8240600074063270099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/8240600074063270099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/nia.html' title='Nia'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-7544867091349656702</id><published>2011-01-03T17:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T17:03:22.707-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ujamaa</title><content type='html'>Ujamaa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cooperative Economics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some say that&lt;br /&gt;Integration was the death&lt;br /&gt;Of black owned businesses&lt;br /&gt;Some say that the Civil&lt;br /&gt;Right Act was the death&lt;br /&gt;Of the traditionally black neighborhood&lt;br /&gt;That those who could afford it&lt;br /&gt;Moved out to leave the&lt;br /&gt;Poor of the poor and our elders&lt;br /&gt;To fend for themselves against&lt;br /&gt;Young black warriors&lt;br /&gt;Who only respect&lt;br /&gt;Getting hold the processions&lt;br /&gt;Of others by any means necessary&lt;br /&gt;Some say that&lt;br /&gt;The black middle class&lt;br /&gt;Has turned its back&lt;br /&gt;On their sisters and brothers&lt;br /&gt;Some say that Cosby&lt;br /&gt;Who set on the sideline&lt;br /&gt;During the Civil Right Moment&lt;br /&gt;Should had told us first&lt;br /&gt;Before he told the whites also&lt;br /&gt;That he have nothing but disdain&lt;br /&gt;For the black and poor&lt;br /&gt;And that this is evident that the&lt;br /&gt;Black middle class is&lt;br /&gt;White washed by the greenness of their money&lt;br /&gt;As in all things there is&lt;br /&gt;A grain of truth like&lt;br /&gt;A pebble in our  collective shoe that&lt;br /&gt;That rubs us raw and&lt;br /&gt;Some middle class blacks are&lt;br /&gt;Walking on a cloud of self delusion&lt;br /&gt;As not to muddy their designer shoes&lt;br /&gt;In the muck and mire of the ground in which&lt;br /&gt;The poor are digging out a living&lt;br /&gt;Ujamaa- Cooperative&lt;br /&gt;Economics\&lt;br /&gt;The black green back buck&lt;br /&gt;Is not our savior&lt;br /&gt;But only a tool to be used&lt;br /&gt;To buy new and stronger booth laces&lt;br /&gt;In which the poor&lt;br /&gt;Can pull themselves up by&lt;br /&gt;Cooperative is the telling word&lt;br /&gt;That guild us as  a black light&lt;br /&gt;That will show us our true color&lt;br /&gt;Economics is what we should &lt;br /&gt;Be teaching our children&lt;br /&gt;Is only a mean to a greater end&lt;br /&gt;None of us should be intransigently ignorant&lt;br /&gt;Of this fact&lt;br /&gt;The church  both black and white in its misguided&lt;br /&gt;Way have been trying&lt;br /&gt;To save us with a white God&lt;br /&gt;Once black but we are&lt;br /&gt;Hearing none of that this idea&lt;br /&gt;That Jesus was black is as&lt;br /&gt;Distasteful to blacks as it is to whites&lt;br /&gt;A dark people without a dark God&lt;br /&gt;Is lost in the wilderness of whiteness&lt;br /&gt;And that wilderness is our home&lt;br /&gt;The land of the brave and the colonized.&lt;br /&gt;And no manner of musical or sport bread crumbs&lt;br /&gt;Can save us&lt;br /&gt;Ujamaa&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-7544867091349656702?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7544867091349656702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=7544867091349656702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7544867091349656702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/7544867091349656702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/ujamaa.html' title='Ujamaa'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2826306803604455588</id><published>2011-01-03T16:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T16:49:05.801-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kujichagalla</title><content type='html'>Self-Determination&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowledge is the root&lt;br /&gt;Of spiritual power&lt;br /&gt;And power is the root&lt;br /&gt;Of spiritual knowledge&lt;br /&gt;Know yourself and you&lt;br /&gt;Know man, know Nature&lt;br /&gt;And you know yourself.&lt;br /&gt;As a thing within her.&lt;br /&gt;Self-determination&lt;br /&gt;Is confident in knowing&lt;br /&gt;That you have a place&lt;br /&gt;In the universe, a place&lt;br /&gt;That is yours along&lt;br /&gt;The self determination&lt;br /&gt;Of the self is the determination&lt;br /&gt;That acts out its dreams&lt;br /&gt;To be of use in our world&lt;br /&gt;Crowded with individuals&lt;br /&gt;Who work with or against you&lt;br /&gt;A case in point the&lt;br /&gt;Settian man who says&lt;br /&gt;To himself first&lt;br /&gt;I am me apart&lt;br /&gt;Of the God head that&lt;br /&gt;Is the only existence&lt;br /&gt;That I can ever know&lt;br /&gt;I am Settian in my bones&lt;br /&gt;A black man who&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy the sexual&lt;br /&gt;Flesh of men and in&lt;br /&gt;My love I harm no one&lt;br /&gt;In my joys I rejoice&lt;br /&gt;In the sexual knowledge&lt;br /&gt;That I am one&lt;br /&gt;Never along&lt;br /&gt;In my life's journey&lt;br /&gt;Full of ready breath&lt;br /&gt;Of men who love as I do&lt;br /&gt;The sexual self and the spiritual self are&lt;br /&gt;Tow heads of the same coin&lt;br /&gt;As it is true that ni man knows everything&lt;br /&gt;And no man knows nothing&lt;br /&gt;So is it true that self determination&lt;br /&gt;And self-acceptance&lt;br /&gt;Are two heads of the same&lt;br /&gt;Be you self determined&lt;br /&gt;Toward self acceptance&lt;br /&gt;Above all things&lt;br /&gt;You are one of a kind&lt;br /&gt;None before and none after&lt;br /&gt;Shall come this way&lt;br /&gt;My black brothers&lt;br /&gt;Know that you are &lt;br /&gt;Loved by the poets&lt;br /&gt;Know that you&lt;br /&gt;Are the fuel of their poetic fire&lt;br /&gt;That burns its heat and light&lt;br /&gt;In your honor&lt;br /&gt;Kujichagalla&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2826306803604455588?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2826306803604455588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2826306803604455588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2826306803604455588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2826306803604455588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/kujichagalla.html' title='Kujichagalla'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-821936670354273485</id><published>2011-01-03T16:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T16:39:51.192-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Umoja</title><content type='html'>(unity)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the souls that jumped ship&lt;br /&gt;The children, the woman folks&lt;br /&gt;And the men with King's hands&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the Blacks that bore the licks&lt;br /&gt;of the tip of the whips&lt;br /&gt;When the whites refuse to understand&lt;br /&gt;We unity with you&lt;br /&gt;From the black bent backs &lt;br /&gt;Of the sugar mills and indigo factories&lt;br /&gt;And cotton fields&lt;br /&gt;Where out sweat stained them all&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From W. E. Du Bois&lt;br /&gt;To the by all means&lt;br /&gt;Of Malcolm&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From Booker T's disenfranchisement&lt;br /&gt;To Martin Lutheran King's&lt;br /&gt;I have a dream &lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the tobacco farm&lt;br /&gt;Of Benjamin Baneker&lt;br /&gt;To the covered miles of &lt;br /&gt;Sojourner Truth&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;from the Jacobs Free School&lt;br /&gt;To Cummell's American&lt;br /&gt;Negro Academy&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From then North star of Trubman&lt;br /&gt;With a $40.000 bounty on her head&lt;br /&gt;Yes the  spy&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;To George Washington&lt;br /&gt;Carver ransomed&lt;br /&gt;For a $300 prized race horse&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the carpenter's hands&lt;br /&gt;Of Ida Wells that held the pen&lt;br /&gt;Of Southern Horrors&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the wisdom of Mary&lt;br /&gt;Mcleoad Bethune&lt;br /&gt;Who breath the air&lt;br /&gt;That I breathed in 1953&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the once lost grave&lt;br /&gt;of Zora Neale Hurston&lt;br /&gt;And the Black Bourgeois of&lt;br /&gt;E. Franklin Frazier&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the weary Blues&lt;br /&gt;To the blood of Charles Drew&lt;br /&gt;We unite within you&lt;br /&gt;From the Warrior Intellectual&lt;br /&gt;Of  Loraine Hansberry&lt;br /&gt;To the Presidential Medal of Freedom&lt;br /&gt;OF Colin Powel&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the Fences and the Piano Lesson&lt;br /&gt;To Edward Blyden's Travels in Africa&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;No longer do we jump ships&lt;br /&gt;No longer bears the whip's&lt;br /&gt;Licks save what lies&lt;br /&gt;Are told of our unity&lt;br /&gt;Told against our indigenous ways&lt;br /&gt;To be as bold of mind&lt;br /&gt;As we are of bold of skin that unite us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-821936670354273485?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/821936670354273485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=821936670354273485' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/821936670354273485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/821936670354273485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/umoja.html' title='Umoja'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5935851217766410129</id><published>2011-01-03T16:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:08:34.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Umoja</title><content type='html'>(unity)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the souls that jumped ship&lt;br /&gt;The children, the woman folks&lt;br /&gt;And the men with King's hands&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the Blacks that bore the licks&lt;br /&gt;of the tip of the whips&lt;br /&gt;When the whites refuse to understand&lt;br /&gt;We unity with you&lt;br /&gt;From the black bent backs &lt;br /&gt;Of the sugar mills and indigo factories&lt;br /&gt;And cotton fields&lt;br /&gt;Where out sweat stained them all&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From W. E. Du Bois&lt;br /&gt;To the by all means&lt;br /&gt;Of Malcolm&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From Booker T's disenfranchisement&lt;br /&gt;To Martin Lutheran King's&lt;br /&gt;I have a dream &lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the tobacco farm&lt;br /&gt;Of Benjamin Baneker&lt;br /&gt;To the covered miles of &lt;br /&gt;Sojourner Truth&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;from the Jacobs Free School&lt;br /&gt;To Cummell's American&lt;br /&gt;Negro Academy&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From then North star of Trubman&lt;br /&gt;With a $40.000 bounty on her head&lt;br /&gt;Yes the  spy&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;To George Washington&lt;br /&gt;Carver ransomed&lt;br /&gt;For a $300 prized race horse&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the carpenter's hands&lt;br /&gt;Of Ida Wells that held the pen&lt;br /&gt;Of Southern Horrors&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the wisdom of Mary&lt;br /&gt;Mcleoad Bethune&lt;br /&gt;Who breath the air&lt;br /&gt;That I breathed in 1953&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the once lost grave&lt;br /&gt;of Zora Neale Hurston&lt;br /&gt;And the Black Bourgeois of&lt;br /&gt;E. Franklin Frazier&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the weary Blues&lt;br /&gt;To the blood of Charles Drew&lt;br /&gt;We unite within you&lt;br /&gt;From the Warrior Intellectual&lt;br /&gt;Of  Loraine Hansberry&lt;br /&gt;To the Presidential Medal of Freedom&lt;br /&gt;OF Colin Powel&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;From the Fences and the Piano Lesson&lt;br /&gt;To Edward Blyden's Travels in Africa&lt;br /&gt;We unite with you&lt;br /&gt;No longer do we jump ships&lt;br /&gt;No longer bears the whip's&lt;br /&gt;Licks save what lies&lt;br /&gt;Are told of our unity&lt;br /&gt;Told against our indigenous ways&lt;br /&gt;To be as bold of mind&lt;br /&gt;As we are of bold of skin that unite us.&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5935851217766410129?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5935851217766410129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5935851217766410129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5935851217766410129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5935851217766410129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2011/01/umoja_03.html' title='Umoja'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-2755680720339500083</id><published>2010-12-09T15:52:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T15:52:06.621-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;!-- smartlook includes --&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;   var issuuConfig = {    guid: 'ebfe9b84-5356-444b-91a8-338490eb3c7e',    domain: '*.domain.topleveldomain'   };  &lt;/script&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;   document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='http://static.issuu.com/smartlook/ISSUU.smartlook.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));  &lt;/script&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;!-- end smartlook includes --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-2755680720339500083?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/2755680720339500083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=2755680720339500083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2755680720339500083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/2755680720339500083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2010/12/var-issuuconfig-guid-ebfe9b84-5356-444b.html' title=''/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5662971201531627627</id><published>2010-12-03T14:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-03T14:49:28.775-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Poem for Cleo Manago</title><content type='html'>I stride my replies&lt;br /&gt;And yoke beside the&lt;br /&gt;Wise morning full of birds&lt;br /&gt;In their living out of doors wisdom&lt;br /&gt;I strain to walk the lane&lt;br /&gt;Again and again to rest&lt;br /&gt;In the belly of the west&lt;br /&gt;With its laborious mountains&lt;br /&gt;Above Denver&lt;br /&gt;I give my best Bill and me&lt;br /&gt;Will our sexual aim still&lt;br /&gt;As going insane we rise&lt;br /&gt;Above the common game&lt;br /&gt;And they call us homosexuals&lt;br /&gt;As if sex is all to me&lt;br /&gt;I sex the way you do as&lt;br /&gt;To sex if we are true&lt;br /&gt;No more no less its measure&lt;br /&gt;Is of its place in all my human things&lt;br /&gt;Sex is a treasure to give and take&lt;br /&gt;To tongue a dick stiff of tongue&lt;br /&gt;And suck and wait the swimmer’s run&lt;br /&gt;The seed head from pulled back foreskin helmet&lt;br /&gt;They call us homosexual because we play each other&lt;br /&gt;With morning’s beams and&lt;br /&gt;Teams of sweat and pale lies&lt;br /&gt;We sigh to bay and dark tones&lt;br /&gt;By birth won and leave&lt;br /&gt;The morn to the forlorn who&lt;br /&gt;Sell their will from an empty well&lt;br /&gt;And what about our hidden doubts&lt;br /&gt;Down in St. Louis town&lt;br /&gt;Where flowers of pretty god byes&lt;br /&gt;Of dusk brims burning with&lt;br /&gt;Desires that spans the land to the rim&lt;br /&gt;Together we love a strong&lt;br /&gt;Black strive of interlocked&lt;br /&gt;Thighs our broad noises and wide lips plump&lt;br /&gt;Like lanes in the land that lead from&lt;br /&gt;Nude man to nude man of bear form&lt;br /&gt;And tongue warmed by sweet cum&lt;br /&gt;On the hills of our bellies&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow will round and&lt;br /&gt;Fall from the sky and&lt;br /&gt;Sex or love denied is perhaps&lt;br /&gt;The trustless touch&lt;br /&gt;Love is luck and lust&lt;br /&gt;Toward the fuck is momentarily filled&lt;br /&gt;But acts as if it is starving soon again&lt;br /&gt;The Settian hour is at hand&lt;br /&gt;For same gender loving black men&lt;br /&gt;Who know that the word gay&lt;br /&gt;Is full of holes so must go&lt;br /&gt;Only to them to which it belongs&lt;br /&gt;Comrades leave that home&lt;br /&gt;And heavy yourselves as heroes&lt;br /&gt;Fighting the good cause&lt;br /&gt;Born from your dark skin&lt;br /&gt;Black men O my comrades of mind&lt;br /&gt;And sexual body’s desires&lt;br /&gt;Let the lie die out of you&lt;br /&gt;And your brothers recruit&lt;br /&gt;Toward the Manago frame of mind&lt;br /&gt;No better teacher and hero&lt;br /&gt;Have I then the truth of his black light.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5662971201531627627?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5662971201531627627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5662971201531627627' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5662971201531627627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5662971201531627627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2010/12/poem-for-cleo-manago.html' title='Poem for Cleo Manago'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-4654159197710462571</id><published>2010-11-14T14:29:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T14:29:35.176-08:00</updated><title type='text'>There is a handsome God</title><content type='html'>There is a handsome God&lt;br /&gt;Like a bare back black man&lt;br /&gt;Reposed half hidden by the sheet&lt;br /&gt;A bear built God bold willing&lt;br /&gt;To pump and pack life into the hole&lt;br /&gt;To sweat his skin against mine&lt;br /&gt;This God have an erect prink prickly&lt;br /&gt;With sons of seeds little swimmers&lt;br /&gt;Of whom he is physically&lt;br /&gt;This God gold glow against his skin&lt;br /&gt;Stander of a man&lt;br /&gt;This bold black bag&lt;br /&gt;Of African wisdom inherently hidden&lt;br /&gt;Will not hide his love of me&lt;br /&gt;This sexual power pure as male sex&lt;br /&gt;Seeks to set his seared foreskin&lt;br /&gt;Within me and teach me and tight me&lt;br /&gt;And spill his sons within me&lt;br /&gt;There is a handsome God&lt;br /&gt;Who lay his fat to my lips&lt;br /&gt;And we sweet the salt of life&lt;br /&gt;And we worship the prick of life&lt;br /&gt;And we know that all Gods&lt;br /&gt;Are sexual that life may grow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-4654159197710462571?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/4654159197710462571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=4654159197710462571' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4654159197710462571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/4654159197710462571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2010/11/there-is-handsome-god.html' title='There is a handsome God'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-5987809623976342085</id><published>2010-11-03T18:28:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-03T18:43:32.354-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Harm in a Word</title><content type='html'>My nine years old grand nephew asked me is the word gay was a bad word? I said to him “I am gay am I bad”? He said “No way Uncle David!”  As I thought of it I had already made up my mind that in fact being gay was not bad but it was used in a limited way at the exclusion of black. To all my same gender loving brothers I have a proposal for you. I purpose that we as Black people drop the word gay to define us. If you do a google on the word gay what you will get is the some-what colonial inspired white way of knowledge of white middle class gay men,. It is necessary for you to qualify the word gay with the words black or African American.. What use have we as black people holding onto a word that represent us as a second class qualifier. We African Americans have a history of self defining ourselves as Africans, or niggers. It is time that we as same gender loving men define ourselves and I propose that we use the word, Settian a word that I coined from the African-Egyptian God Set brother to Horus, here is a bit about Set,  more info on him can be had on the net.&lt;br /&gt;It was also said, during these contendings of Horus and Set, that Set had sought to support his claim to the throne by showing Horus was submissive to him, and consequently seduced Horus, with lines like How lovely your backside is. They had interfemoral intercourse, with Set taking the top role, but Horus secretly caught Set's semen, when he ejaculated, and throws it in the river. Subsequently, Horus masturbates, and secretly places his resulting semen onto lettuce, which Set then unknowingly eats, as it was his favourite food. To prove his dominance to the other gods, Set explains to them that Horus submitted to his advances, and calls forth his semen as evidence, but it answers from the river. Horus then calls his own semen forth, which answers from inside Set, making the gods feel that Horus was the dominant one, and therefore the rightful heir. In later versions of this myth, it is Thoth's magic that causes the semen to respond.&lt;br /&gt;To self-define ourselves with this subjection we give relevance to am ancient African God that is apart of the ancestors history of the black man on the gracious and honest earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David E. Patton&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-5987809623976342085?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/5987809623976342085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=5987809623976342085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5987809623976342085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/5987809623976342085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-harm-in-word.html' title='What Harm in a Word'/><author><name>David E. Patton</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/103252389789857450531</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664817.post-6067398383627404145</id><published>2010-11-03T18:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T10:08:34.469-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What Harm in a Word</title><content type='html'>My nine years old nephew asked me is the word gay was a bad word? I said to him “I am gay am I bad”? He said “No way Uncle David!”  As I thought of it I had already made up my mind that in fact being gay was not bad but it was used in a limited way at the exclusion of black. To all my same gender loving brothers I have a proposal for you. I purpose that we as Black people drop the word gay to define us. If you do a google on the word gay what you will get is the some-what colonial inspired white way of knowledge of white middle class gay men,. It is necessary for you to qualify the word gay with the words black or African American.. What use have we as black people holding onto a word that represent us as a second class qualifier. We African Americans have a history of self defining ourselves as Africans, or niggers. It is time that we as same gender loving men define ourselves and I propose that we use the word, Settian a word that I coined from the African-Egyptian God Set brother to Horus, here is a bit about Set,  more info on him can be had on the net.&lt;br /&gt;It was also said, during these contendings of Horus and Set, that Set had sought to support his claim to the throne by showing Horus was submissive to him, and consequently seduced Horus, with lines like How lovely your backside is. They had interfemoral intercourse, with Set taking the top role, but Horus secretly caught Set's semen, when he ejaculated, and throws it in the river. Subsequently, Horus masturbates, and secretly places his resulting semen onto lettuce, which Set then unknowingly eats, as it was his favourite food. To prove his dominance to the other gods, Set explains to them that Horus submitted to his advances, and calls forth his semen as evidence, but it answers from the river. Horus then calls his own semen forth, which answers from inside Set, making the gods feel that Horus was the dominant one, and therefore the rightful heir. In later versions of this myth, it is Thoth's magic that causes the semen to respond.&lt;br /&gt;To self-define ourselves with this subjection we give relevance to am ancient African God that is apart of the ancestors history of the black man on the gracious and honest earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David E. Patton&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20664817-6067398383627404145?l=blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/6067398383627404145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20664817&amp;postID=6067398383627404145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6067398383627404145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20664817/posts/default/6067398383627404145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blackgaypoetry.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-harm-in-word_03.html' title='What Harm in a Word'/><author><name>David E. 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