Tortilla De Patatas

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Eggs, potatoes, cheese, spinach, milk.

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A woman’s smile can melt a heart

That’s grown so cold and icy

A woman’s touch can heal the scars

That hides the pain precisely

.

But when smile and touch have gone away

As they have done before

The sun is cold,

The daytime night

Dark shadows scratch the floor

.

My heart grows hard

The pain bursts forth

And sorrow comes to haunt me

I cannot breathe.

I cannot fly

My tears have filled the dark sea

.

Tonight, I eat plain toast alone.

She Does It All

Hi everyone. Just self-published my first children’s book, She Does It All.

Kids get to finish the book by illustrating the verses.

Fun!

She’s bumping the bumper who bumped on his bump,

And jumps with the jumper who’s jumping the jump.

She’s pacing the pacer who paced the quick pace,

And chases the chaser who’s chasing the chased.

She’s dialing the dialer who dialed the dial,

And smiles with the smiler who smiling his smile.

Available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CG8B9MG

Product details

• Paperback: 44 pages
• Publisher: Independently published (July 3, 2020)
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 979-8632392976
• ASIN: B08CG8B9MG
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.1 x 10 inches

 

Say When 060320

There were so many moments

You could have stopped

If you had compassion

If you showed mercy.

 

When he stopped struggling

When he stopped asking

His (dead) mother for help

When he fell unconscious

When he stopped breathing

When he lost his pulse

But you continued

To choke his dead body

For another three minutes.

 

Was your hatred so great

That death wasn’t

Punishment enough

For being a black man?

Dear Mr. President 060220

Dear Mr. President,
Do you think by using
overwhelming force
against your own people,
you will accomplish anything?
You are not even putting
a bandage on a gunshot wound.

The anger that your people feel
cannot be contained
if they are forced back
into their homes
or prison cells.

There is no justification for people
to commit acts of violence
against innocent people.
It is wrong when committed
by an individual
or the government.

The problem is a racist system.
The problem is not a brick through a window.
You cannot solve the problem
by silencing the victims.

Racism exists
On city streets,
In quiet neighborhoods,
In public parks.

In the Inquisition there was a saying,
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Social inequalities will not go away
unless we make them go away,
through legislation
through education
through a redistribution of wealth.

Patriots say, freedom is not free!
But neither is equality.
Neither is justice.
We need to fight for equality.
We need to fight for justice.
Not only when it is in the news,
But every moment that we breathe.

Victims have long memories.
We will remember the knee on his neck.
We will remember the plea for mercy.
We will remember the death
in a quiet neighborhood.
We will remember the call to the police.

The troops you send against us,
Will not wipe those injustices,
Or the thousand others from our memory.
Change will.

 

Covid 051420

covid persona

covid pariah

covid stigmata

covid survivor

 

Clandestine clinician

Production obstruction

 

covid denier

covid implier

covid vendetta

covid agenda

 

Discussion dysfunction

Forsaken foundations

 

covid Golgotha

covid Gomorrah

covid Hegira

covid hosanna

 

Contagion contention

Delusion, Damnation

 

covid Pandora

covid Medusa

covid Messiah

covid Valhalla

 

Attention, Attraction,

Affliction, Abstention

 

covid miasma

covid pneumonia

covid saliva

covid proxima

 

Secretion suspicion

Exertion exhaustion

  

covid bandanna

covid regalia

covid tequila

covid bologna

 

Prevention pretention

Rebellion reception

 

covid babushka

covid omega

covid dementia

covid dilemma

 

Attrition aversion

Morticians libations

 

covid enigma

covid obeah

covid fantasia

covid Eurasia

 

Reduction, Redaction

Retraction, Inaction

 

covid persona

covid pariah

covid stigmata

covid survivor

 

 

 

 

 

Article on A.F. Winter

In the Summerville Journal Scene, my local paper.

It also may be the reason why I should never give interviews!

Please click on the link below.

Article

loved love

I have someone whom I loved,

love.

 

she is not far away,

nearly.

 

I only think of happy times,

sadly.

 

dead words 02/2020

dead words on a page

 

i liked them so much better

when they were in my mind.

they danced, they jumped

they changed

as i tried to get them right.

 

They begged me to write them down,

But when I did,

They were empty, ugly, and dead,

Frozen in time and space,

In an effort to be validated.

 

afraid

 

I’m not afraid of dying

Because there’s no one in my life

I’m afraid of losing.

 

 

 

or since you

there were moments of pure happiness

that I experienced with you

that I experienced with no other

before you

or since you

 

but you made me angry

and you made me sad

and I felt loneliness

even while holding your hand

and I never felt that way

before you

or since you

 

now there is emptiness

a hole in my whole

and whatever I do

it’s never complete

because you are missing from my life

 

people talk of soul mates

I don’t know if they exist

but I never thought

that life was so precious

before you

or since you