CripesCripple comes from words meaning "to crook, bend" or "to creep" which carries modern day connotation and baggage heavier than a sack of bricks-one that would crick, crook, crack an old man's back.Cripes
And he'd be bent at the task, wouldn't he, this old man- carrying bricks at his age? Back in the labor force, or still there,
but age sure does have habit of creeping up on a fellow.
But he's bent to the will of his family and skewered on society's crook-a creeper, isn't he?-old, dirty, and that's how he smells.
He thinks he knows he's far from alone; he thinks that th
Frosty WindowEarly twilight hangs in the fog with a lingering glow, as its source abandons; and I at the window, perched, like an old cat, gray in my sweater, staring out at you, the prey I can only catch and hold in my feline dreams.Frosty Window
The fog parts, and perhaps I imagine the streaming sunlight-a spotlight, pouring down from celestial heights as if God Himself thinks it's hilarious, too, that my room is a confine I've forged myself, with the walls only stronger for it.
From the corner the heating grate shudders and clacks, mocking: "You? An old cat?" And I accept that, accept that I am hardly wizened,
skinif my skin is an organ (the largest) then play it with your fingers; play into pipes rising up and rising out— to the white congregation, some with Hearts of Darkness, but they hang on every stroke;skin
public hanging— a nervous epidermis because skin dies and sheds and becomes dust
but
not In the Wind; that’s the wrong State (or Band)— Aid (I’d request some) if it’d help but the wound you marked on my skin or inside
my Lungs (of Brightness?) and my Spleen (in Betwe
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"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Mahatma Gandhi
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