I live in the moment
of this.

it's 2008 and there are
not many
left
of us.

I would like to think
that they all
live
behind closed doors: but this is when
mediocrity begins to take over.

progression
will
finally runs its course.

a new era comes.

a black president. a black president scares the whites and
the conservatives
alike.

it scares the shit out of them.

the black will take us over,
they say.
the arab
the muslim
the un-american
the not--
american ENOUGH.

watch their faces go pale. their fear
and anger ignite
alike as
the political caravan
goes in 2009.

he smiles like a sword
and excites.

Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Monk,
and Frank Sinatra would of
startled
and smiled
alike.