Ghetto Specific
Homegrown deprivation weeds of poverty
taste like grassroot famine
Detroit dark amber alert operatic style ...
Ms. Sing Hope
is an Ursa skydive dirt bier
Purchasing uninsured ash fault grief
from an actuary worm liar
She has an octave register three days higher
Right on cue,
Misery is standing on Eight Mile;
(the black boundary marker)
her green felt pain
is knees shakily,
suburban crossover eyes st-rolling
behind the siren sound advancing
Stunted cries from bloated bellies,
inner city tragedy
has an empty space opera void feel
Malnourished dreams
are ever present: wilted ... suffocated ... dying
Decaying half-life,
volatile poverty bio-chemistry
Atomic weight tears,
falling
on the scale of injustice,
are ghetto specific
Minor concern
be the opinion of the majority
Blind compassion
is the white hanky gleaner judgment
of a funeral procession decree
Polaris is pointing downward,
the path to ghetto freedom
is as it always was —
Northern beans, southern fried ...
green tomatoes frozen on the inside
Ursa twin color bears are bereaving
for their missing children,
who died
exiting the womb ...
hope buried as they were stillborn leaving
Atomic weight tears
be the evaporated years,
they are ghetto specific vapor breathing
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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