All those COVID-19 reports
Intend to blackball bedroom sports
Its all an hoax
So listen, folks*,
Consorts cavort at Trump Resorts!
*I do know "folk" is plural, but
Trump was raised on, "That's all folks!"
Rejected
Like a blackball
in the ballot box,
I lie silently
since dejected in love,
Not desirous of
breathing fresh air,
Neither wanting
any rock or roll,
Nor counting
on the kicking toll,
Unfortunate having
lost my love,
Passion denied
by destiny,
Dropped me
taking a dead fish,
Casted me away
As spoiled milk,
Send some scents
of the recent past,
That could neutralise
the sarcasm,
Else standing at middle
Of whirlpool,
drowning deep,
Rejection could be
A lethal tool,
Embrace the rejected back
To head and heart !
Written September 11th, 2014
For contest ' Rejection' by Regina Riddle
Awarded 4th place
They say my writings are weak and without meaning?
They say I will never be published, no not even overseas?
Nobody in the main stream wants to read about your Ghetto life...
Nobody in the main stream will ever buy your books...
The people that would read it, can’t even
afford to buy it... You’re just another blackballed poet!
(Reply)
I may be blackballed for life and nobody in
the main stream will ever read my books?
But, I’m a black writer and black life is what I write about...
I may never win the Pulitzer Prize? I don’t care!
I won’t compromise my writings just for a book sale...
Blackball me if you must; but I will still be a black poet... when all has been
said and done, I think you will all know this, a black poet is what I will still be even
in my death!
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