Everything you doubt, you test on dark
Nuclear and Chems, you see their worth
And then forget, a wrath to the black
My voice quit games, firm to tell truth
Every black in me, you doubt oppress
With a voluminous nose, protruding as a cigarillo
A brown dirty sea, immersed you were'
My voice don't cheat, reveal a doubting Tom
Every part you plant, and never man's soul
You're out to endeavor, and test on black
Whether you know you can't, or can no care
My voice quit games, hide not be fair
Education you bring, and call me awkward
For my tongue you say, heavy to say encyclopedia
You call me unseen, uncivilized for my black
My voice not shame, just say n fame
At least I say, and appeal to globe
To that container mouth-shaped, Forty fifth idiot
Black is not specimen, very green and fresh
My voice is fine, and not a shithole
Cool jazz notes
heady streams
rising phoenix clawed
from urban cellars.
Aural zip jangle
bourbon scents,
the cigarillo blooms
in opiate clouds.
Stray cat trashcans
metallically clatter
off dead zone alleyways
in night humidified.
Zap and jolt
shock inducer gates
at tramline pitstops
on broadway.
Risen fine hair tingles
on the forearm flesh,
aspberger genus fires
autistic focus.
Rainman obsessions
stave peripheral vision,
just neon scribble
lace wet glass.
The street-lore majesty,
gin and loganberry fetish,
collapse unstable
semantic pylons.
Power cable trawling
amniotic pools
I step and stiffen
electrified, infatuated.
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