Long Stepchild Poems

EDGAR CAYCE
			
		True, true, my hands are soft– not overworked,
		nor lined by heavy labor-- nor calloused  
		-- the soft hands of a gentleman, perhaps!
		But my manners are rough and countryfied, 
		my speech slow and southern–...

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I don’t have a father, that’s my big brother
We both never had a father but we both had a heartless mother
That nigga can never be my father
Many days, I didn’t have a meal, he didn’t...

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We were caught up in the moment
A moment of challenge and battles,
toes were stepped on, hearts were bruised,
lines were crossed. 
What came out of my mouth may not
have been true, but it was my truest...

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She calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny

She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan dinner dishes
Then, flitting through my mind's back door
Leaving me her...

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Hey fat man
 in the little red suit
All those little girls 
think your so cute
But ive known the truth now
 since i was over three
And caught you kissing Mommy 
under our  christmas tree
I heard...

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Sitting on me, butterflies and dragonflies give poses.
Am I not, yet, less known than my fragrant sisters, Roses?

Am I not somewhat less cared for as though nature's stepchild?
The sun and the shower on me, yet,...

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takes out it's loaded gun
shoots holes in us for fun
daring us to try and run

time

knows the game and plays it well
watches from the side or there about
has us play against ourselves

time

laughs at you in your...

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Big Orange was a housecat gone wild
He'd eat my cat's food then he smiled
No more do I leave food out
He no longer has clout
He came back with wife and stepchild    

Big Dog...

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could someone please tell me

of the moons intentions

and of their affair

with Jupiter's rings

when lo and behold

Io has a fire in her belly

snowy volcanic fields

burning ice in her spring

Europa stands by

displaying cold shoulders

with oceans below

life she...

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