back in my day,
things were more complicated.
you had kids teaching children
lessons about consequence.
we learned together to ostracize the weak.
the games boys play.
i had my code book stashed away,
and when you lose lives like hurdles
and stain your nails
that even your own father wont play with you anymore,
it is important to remember to respect your elders
because they sure as Hell won’t respect you.
//jf 7.28.2021
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i’m on the look-out for my very own mistress –
one to call my own
who i can love and adore
and use and abuse
and leave packing at the front door when i’m through.
anyone at all,
preferably female
although i’ve never had a man before.
she doesn’t have to be pretty
or kind
or young in body & mind –
or not care that i don’t work or have money all the time
but i’ll take them all if she’s willing to share –
why would you want me?
there’s lots of boys like me in the city,
with my hair and my ambiguous tattoos –
a flair,
in an otherwise-mediocre affair.
“oh but i do, i do!” she cries
while we lay side-by-side,
“there is only one you!”
here, maybe –
now –
but where will your pristine heart really dare you to tread?
tomorrow? a year from now?
enough time to build a family –
a life,
only to have it torn from your grasp for spite
because i am one of a million
and you’re just a country girl.
one day you will wake up
and i still won’t be good enough for you.
//jf 6.16.2021
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i saw a monster today.
walking among us –
her profile in view,
she confronted me like divinity –
a crack split down the center of her dark-skinned face
and all the blood came rushing back,
scarred by time –
dreamless.
a body to take you there
but eyes that bring you back.
i am urged to ignore her
so i leave her alone,
trying to escape the power she casts
when she stares back at me half-mast.
//jf 6.2.2021
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what do you mean i don’t come on anyone’s authority?
you Sir catechize in impossibilities!
a list of people who know me,
systematically,
who would speak efficaciously
re: me?
preposterousity!
while alternately, you could accept me at the length of my extended goatee.
∼ lengthy exhale ∼
but if we must to win your trust,
then let us descend into the chancery,
unpedantically –
mind the leads,
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