Wore my boots today, black and sleek
Silver buckle on the side they tap and clank on the shinny school hallways
“Mize “R” teach me that step!”
I click and stomp and bang the rhythm out
They click and stomp and bang the rhythm out
O red branches outside the window
See the Goethals bridge the landing planes the huge container cranes
Here low voices whispered on the stairs “Bloods and Crypts take out 30 women this year”
I jump out of bed some nights fall on the floor and pray…bring me back to life help me to stem the blood flowing from my heart.
held my hands up to my face at the sound, the voices flashing out of the car stereo. the notes speeding, moving forward..the crescendo! Fly out! fly fast. out the windshield! fly smack wind whip up onto the overpass up then and out pass the looming water towers pass the bricks, skimming the concrete past the exits, past the turnoffs onto the vast panorama of factories, bridges, parking lots, billboards—-THEN-
SKY!
Here!
even here!
Sky, vast huge as far as the eye can see, Sky!
“Tosca et tu!”
Boots
Had a real girlfriend, well almost… once
Went to a restaurant, a movie, a symphony
Held hands, kissed,
Nothing then…then nothing…but boots…she gave me boots, black.
Thick, bang, clunk. here!
Boots! Black!
Black Boots!
