childhood remembrances are always a drag   
if you’re Black
you always remember things like living in Woodlawn   
with no inside toilet
and if you become famous or something
they never talk about how happy you were to have   
your mother
all to yourself and
how good the water...

They basically grow it out of sand.
This is a big help because otherwise it was getting pretty enigmatic.
Welcome to the desert of the real,
I am an ephemeral and not too discontented citizen.
I do not think the revolution is finished.
So during...

You warned me about striving.
You said once they gave you a house

with waves of peppermint in the backyard,
the Library of Babylon, and free lunch,

they would take it away. Still, I ate
the fake meat they served on Fridays,

always alone with my...