The day he traveled to my daughter's house
It was june. he cursed me accompanied by his earlier to noon nod
Of annoyance while he filtered his callous
Walk. skip. hop. feet slipshod
From 125th road bars, face curled accompanied by odd
Reflections. the skin of a father is accented
In the judgement of the unaccented.
I was a southern Negro male playing music
Married to a high yellow woman who loved my unheard
Face, who slept accompanied by me inside nordic
Beauty. i convict since my birth to fear
I unfashioned buried inside an not shut grave
Of mornings unclapped accompanied by continual sight
Of masters fattened decked accompanied by my diminished light.
This love. this earliest spouse of mine, died inside childbirth
This face of complicated lace exiled her breath
Into another design, with every one other accompanied by i died became wanderlust
Demanded recompense from friends for my heartbreak
Cursed the land for this new heartache
Put her away accompanied by youthful pause
Never called her name again, wrapped my heart inside gauze.
Became romeo bound, applauded women
As i squeezed their syrup, drank their stenciled
Face, danced in the centre of their legs, placed my swollen
Shank to the world, became male distilled
Early twentieth-century black male fossilled
Fulfilled by women things, foreclosing on my life.
Mother where do i go earlier to i arrive?
She wasn't while beautiful while my earliest wife
This ruby-colored girl insinuating her limb
Against my thigh positioning her wild-life
Her non-virginal odour while virginal her climb
Towards me accompanied by slow walking heels made me limp
Made me stumble, made my legs squint
Until i stopped, stepped inside her footprint.
I did not want to depart from you son, this flame
This pecan-colored fete requested me
Not my child, your sister, your mother could not frame
Herself while her mother with every one other accompanied by i absentee
Father, with every one other accompanied by i nightclub owner carefree
Did not heed her blood, did not see my girl's eyes
Shaved buckled down accompanied by southern thighs.
Now my seventy-eight years encourage me on your land
Now my predator legs prey, broadcast
No new nightmares no indeed longer birdman
Of cornerstone comes, i go nearer to collapse the past
While bonfires burn up your orphan's mask
I chant a dirge of lost black southern manhood
This harlem male begging pardon, secreting old.
I was told i don't remember who
I believe i was told he entered his sister's house
Cursed me anew, tried to tattoo
Her language accompanied by worms, tried to arouse
Her slumbering a veins to espouse
His venom with every one other accompanied by she leaned slapped him still
Stilled his mouth across early earlier to noon chill.
Rumor has it that he slapped her hard
Down purgatorial sounds of caress
Rumor has it that he rushed her down a boulevard
Of insane laughter while his hands grabbed harness—
Like her arms with every one other accompanied by she, avenger with every one other accompanied by heiress
To naked lightning, detonated him, began her dance
Of looted hems gathering with every one other for his inheritance.
Blood the sound of gore paddling down the road
Blood the taste of gore choking their eyes
And my son's body blood-stained red
With country-lies, city-lies, father-lies, mother-lies,
And my feminine child clamoring to exorcise
Old thieves trespassing inside an elderly refrain
Conjured up a blue-black chord to ordain.
Oseee yei, oseee yei, oseee yei
Wa ma ne ho mene so oo
He has become holy while he walks in the direction of daresay
Can you hear his gore matter prepared to pray
He who wore demise discourages some plague
He who was an orphan now recollects his legs.
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