stick fights

30 kids teamed up with african men
taking on everyone and anyone

i bore wittness to a riot
i saw men being bashed with branches

falling from trees i watched them fall
women standing on the outside, preparing the next lot of 5 to enter the ring

i saw men jumped on with steel capped boots
blood splattering upon the pavement

the only screams i heard were gutteral
the screams i heard muffled the sirens

cops arriving 20mins after it started
hosing down craziness with pepper spray and fire hoses



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the sacred act of the eye kiss:

the heart on hold plus two years or more
eyes meeting upon a crest of emotion

kissing my eyes
starting left
moving right

she used to do that to me
the only one to do that to me


tears fell down like rain
it's been a while since my heart has beaten with a wanting in tune with anyone else's

choke the throat
it's been so long since eye kisses

wicked ways of the wicked, i wonder if they will cease
no words left.