MaxOp's Lyricism Poet Narrative

To Escape Inequity

In the years of 
nineteen-hundred and sixties 
in palm of muggy 
Mississippi Delta 
we would walk around 
in thick & bitter air, 
we would hide 
in denial’s shadow 
too witness laissez-faire 
across forbidden tracks, 
then I, as a child, nine or ten, 
would sleep 
and dream of flying, 
of flying above thick 
& blinkered, & pungent clouds 
into flare of 
greeting nihility, 
and as I would awake 
for another chronic day 
rustlers mounted 
jimmy crows 
awaits to shatter our rise

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