**That is for EJ's rap of ALP. Dedicated to the FWBC (also coined by EJ). Tshirts and tattoos to come. This was written in 1999. Bear that in mind by a 23 yr old**
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“The Midnight Swim”
dizzying flowers in her dampened hair,
anna livia’s gone swimming before her man returns,
the moon breaking into her minimized sky –
regretful of her purchases.
the names that the customers offered her;
when she let a pack of cigs their way for free:
hand still, clutching the pack, waiting-
a wink and a misused grin
ushers them far from her burning stars;
chased between the backwood waters,
her soul robbed of her . . .
drowning in the swagger of a rare, real man
who’s off to play cop for the swimming ladies
after running away with their swollen fireflies;
pilots his rustling chariot, roars off in dust
to wear the saving grace, crown of the undressed gaze-
touch them and they quiver beneath
barefoot glow encircling at his feet,
touch anna livia underwater and she drowns,
stung by the tangles in her foolhearty hair.
dizzying flowers in her dampened hair,
anna livia’s gone swimming before her man returns,
the moon breaking into her minimized sky –
regretful of her purchases.
the names that the customers offered her;
when she let a pack of cigs their way for free:
hand still, clutching the pack, waiting-
a wink and a misused grin
ushers them far from her burning stars;
chased between the backwood waters,
her soul robbed of her . . .
drowning in the swagger of a rare, real man
who’s off to play cop for the swimming ladies
after running away with their swollen fireflies;
pilots his rustling chariot, roars off in dust
to wear the saving grace, crown of the undressed gaze-
touch them and they quiver beneath
barefoot glow encircling at his feet,
touch anna livia underwater and she drowns,
stung by the tangles in her foolhearty hair.
1 comment:
if james joyce and missy elliot had a kid it would be dubbed dj easy-e, and that baby would be me. mixin it up portmanteau style.
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