Liberation

Poetry is freedom

 Because it gives me the wings to be fly and be whatever I have ever thought to be and do the impossible with ease style and grace

With poetry I can warp curve and bend
Float like a gust of wind

Better yet
like a butterfly
and
Sting like a bee
Wrestle alligators

Tussle with whales handcuff lightning and throw thunder in jail

Sail into the atmosphere and
space travel into the great beyond

Beyond myself

Something quite mind unraveling

Even  time travel too

That’s how I got it on with Sarah Vaughan and gave Ella Fitz

And drank wine with Ethiopian kings at the same time a cross between

Clark Kent and Superman

Peter Parker and Taharka

Black Jesus of Nazareth married to Mary but still underground like Harriet

With  the Ghost Rider and Roman chariots

Toussaint L’ Overture and Leo Tolstoy

Schoolboy by day

Rocky boy by night

A superhero

Crime fighter

Electric light

Whenever ConEdison con artists cut my lights off and I’m forced to write in the dark

With

Rats in the front room and roaches in the back

That's liberation

I don’t have to care nothing about what another nigga think

Button up my top button

Tuck in my shirt

or

Watch my fucking language

I can raise hell

however the hell I want

And be

A true social deviant

Renegade rebel

Handsome disco devil

Without a burner

NOTORIOUS

Known for kicking in doors

The B.I.G Bruce Lee Roy boy breaking all the rules

I can be bop

Hip- hop

And hop trains without getting caught

And lamp on the subway all by way of a poem that may be
 

A

 Maybach

Beamer

Benz

or

Bentley

A hot meal and or a house on the hill with a bank roll full of Benjamin bills

Because of poetry

I am not a prisoner but a shooting

Star

Stepper

Not a leper or a lame

But the world’s most famous

Agent K

© 2013 Karl Lawrence