gogyohka group (valentine's day)

 my growing children

in different industries—

America

eats up 

all of people's lifeforces

"go back

to where you came from!" 

thinking to myself 

'ive never been outside

of this country..."

with evening shadows

gathering 

parked cars 

huddle

in the coolness

some nights 

i want to be kept warm

by the long wail

of

a Alto saxaphone 

coming back home 

slightly drunk 

in the street

dead body 

of a cat god

some man's 

lingering cologne

in the lobby 

this Valentine's day night 

i find myself annoyed

one spring 

i sat around 

making up words...

tainted water in 

Flint, Michigan 

eating a cobb salad

was the water

in Mississippi 

every cleaned up 

the people compensated

desperation 

like a thick creole veil 

offering up prayers 

to the goddes

Bastet