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About Street roots. (Portland, OR) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 2014)
13 Street roots July 18, 2014 Weathering the Storm by Leo Rhodes Waiting, waiting Wanting, wanting Anticipating Words exchanged Feelings crossed With understanding Closeness building Building, building Higher, higher Spiraling, entangling Two becoming as one In the clouds Through th e storm Holding on never letting go The forces strongw Trying to push them a part One is weak The other trying to hang on Only to watch the other fall Poem for Summer by Kareem Air Summer arrives in complete detail It has creative heat Of silence and sweets Don’t get agitated over The flock of cold Don’t get in a panic Over how the light folds its warmth Don’t stress over how The pigeons walk themselves Because down in the darkened valley The summer pies will arrive | In a sarcophagus of wind Change by Abraham Vinzant Change is good and bad some say; ' But I say ones, fives, or tens or even a twenty gives us who sell the paper hope that we Can get out of the hole we have fallen into. | , , ,* B fl| H H ‘ 11 B j H H B H 11 B 1 Thanks to all who give. We live only if you give. by Dee Allen Human flesh And live electricity. A deadly combination, If any exists— From a small, Hand-held device the size and shape Of a supermarket pricetag dispenser, Fifty thousand volts. From a pair of tiny steel prongs. Micro-conductors, Fifty-thousand volts. From five shots coming From five different directions going for Oné frightened, cornered body, Two hundred and fifty thousand volts. Organs fait Love muscle stops. Body slumps over. Did “excited delirium” cause this fatality? Jnqinring minds want to know. Without a jury trial, without judges orders, Cops have presided over Ceremonies of capital punishm ent With fifty-thousand volts per shot on their side, Executions are done much quicker. , ' The electric chair is long gone. Finished. Obsolete. Meet its Portable replacement. Order e-books and print copies a t iamnotapoet.org or its is a proud member o l the International Network o f 14 a M-smAwc ctvniut. w o rld w id e .
