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street roots
May 13, 2011
Mother’s Day
by J Thiemeyer
Whatever that self has been or remains.
t .
—
A rendered-down pair of something that has survived.
Minor circumstantial stuff might differ, but it is just th a t
Just minor stuff. Geographic, momentary, a recognizable accumulation, of
faces and settings gathered
under the tent, in an abandoned container, or in the bam out Key Road- like
those old gone hoboes living out their last days
at the Atlanta Prison Farm, chewing their gums and swapping their stories.
You look deep in their eyes, set deep in the wrinkles,
and you
know they’ve seen something, and only they know what it is.
And what I remember
which brought this larger memory to.mind,
was standing on the forward Up of the flat-bottom ferry,
as it trudged slowly across the James River,
and spitting into
the water and watching it slide slowly behind,
like a figure on an urn,
like a contrary fish belly-up
on the surface, as Raymond the Gunsmith sat in lotus on top
of the van
driving me home to Virginia
for Mother’s Day, by accident
Haiku Kung-Fu 1
1971
by Elida H. Marsh
So long...
Love in always given and
Mostly hate returned.
While people standing all around you yell
“Will you ever learn?”
They say “you must stay positive and hold your head up
high.”
They’ll act as if they care
So long as they don’t hear jthe cries.
“Always tell the truth, unless their
happiness is in your lies.”
I say act or speak on what you feel,
So long as that’s where your happiness lies.
Even if you don’t want me there
Through the days and nights;
No matter when or where you are,
I’ll be there to help you through
Fears, anger, or cries.
Whenever you are ready, just tell me
How you feel and know that no matter
What you say, what I’ve said to you
Remains the same and I will always stall
Be .peal.
by Terris H.
Street Roots helps me to,
Keep my dignity, head high. -
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