Wild Black Tree…. a tribute to Colin Kaepernick
Glory stadium, frenzy ball
he dropped to one knee
hair blowin like a wild black tree
in the rocky american twilight
crowd boos mighty
street urchin railers, merchant street traders
battered tin star sailors
Morning hijacked coffee paper
bristling at the edge of no return
whistling smart meter burns,
bongo tart urns, in the
dig dog graveyard
Patriotic anti-bodies walzing desert storms
four to the floor kiss your baby goodbyes
billy club dancers on white wash street
pie-eyed meet-ups, Charlottsville
bling ringers circadian circus singers
tulip brides, galaxy aisles
Touch down passes
night glass windows
shattered, he took a knee
enough of that cop chop black egg beater beat
street cheating panoply of
fucked up racist disguise
plantation meat
rally flag flying at Camp Marine
swap shop prisons
build the Dell jisms
make em glistening pennies from heaven, warden
sweat your unleavened soul in the noonday sun
Sweet rivers sing holy hymns
saturn jungle jims, gunga din
riding poplars across the old beat road
took a knee
to the groin
railroaded out to the sidelines
of soot stadium, smoking a love it or leave it joint
Flame O’
Slid up the Himalayas
Got down to the top of his breathe
Golden flame, flower shaded
Purple road snaking exhaust exhaled
Paradise, no waiting lines
Woke up from wondering
What i could become
Ran
Doublebass roll
Monk-a coco
Stride vapor pianos
Nothing-left-of me winds
Clouds a purple train sky
Faraway from icy rivers
In my walking cane, ferryboat rhapsody
Bouys of silver tones bobbing yesteryear’s sea
Chirping seeds, yardbirds, kinks
When my
Bottled bootstraps unhinged
Scaled awkward mountain
Slipped all the way down there
I want to live in a Doris Day movie
Seen enough pain
To marinate a rising tide
Maria Callas sing me home Vissi d’arte
Burlesque circus streams
Fire night borneo walkers
Velvet warm mantras spokes from silent wharfs
Dark star taverns
Caverns of winds, wired night mind highways
Silent stars where I’ll Rest my case
Shakedown Train
She eyes my cagey baggage
stamped backroad spades
says i’m glad to see you this
Awakening Train
St Vitus seat, rub drowsy eyes..
strange artifacts
sour sea smells
train stewards passing out cream puffs,
rough stuff pamphlets for burnt-eye passengers
Night train sputters out of the station
Chirping bird flutters,,
a manifesto hatched in twisted eggs noirs
blinded by dust light
motes tumbling in high places
believing a bright orange savior squeezing
juice..all the way to the promised land..
Same train took Moses to fire breathing hell
Same engine mowing down brothers and sisters
on night street in americas
i slide past porters and borders
slide into my metamorphic day suit
loose as a spread-eagle goose, come out grinning
shaking hands, giving it all away
army of love and compassion, freedom for all
visions of peaecful roads
where the dead walk by my side through
twisted waterfall wonderlands