POETRY: THICK UNCUT PIECE #50

featuring: 

hattie gosset, sister no blues; 
W.E.B DuBois; James Baldwin;
Mignon Moore, Diana Ross
Mammy, Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara
W.E.B. DuBois; Eric Foner; and William Archibald Dunning; 

HBO; Sears; the Butcher of la Creme; 
Martin Luther King, Jr.; Julia Roberts; 

and the Racist Integrity Act of 1924

Now

one might think to oneself

who am I to talk
with an 
undiagnosed dick

more like
dirty and diseased

than pure

and free of misery

that 
part of myself 
designed 
for the procreation of human life--wow!

that swinging pendulum of doom

endangering 

the safety of others

not to mention 
the general well being of the prevailing mythology at large. 

And yet and

and gladly and

and in spite of 
(dirty dick and all)

I do 
give a dear

my damned 

quite frankly 

and I

(unlike Miz. Scarlett)

cannot

not 

think about it

not whilst

knowing

its-been-done-already

unto one

speck of dust….a flower

its-been-done-already

unto me

and there ain't nothin 
none of us can do about it 
not one of us 
not anything

there ain't one of us

not one amongst us

who will

gon get

to see

The End

anyway. 

So, tell me.

Who's gonna go 

way down

beneath 

the chaos? 

NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!

There will be no hand holding this time.

Now…

Now's the time for bright ideas.

Now
one might think to oneself

who I am to talk

since, I say I don't believe

yet, I don't take for granted

either

any of the

available 
information

not

a 

single

tainted

drop

of 

it

(puck) 

not the good

or the no good

no yuern

or yours

not anybody elses

not none of the restes

not nobody's 

not even

my very own.

And just why should I?

There has been no real reconstruction here

on this morning's day

in these backward

and troubled

times...

has there been? 

This work is part of the unpublished book-length project 69 Thick Uncut Pieces: Mutual Mediation on the Mythology of AIDS and HIV. This project is dedicated to The Children who don't have the wherewith all, as we did, to fight for themselves, to fight for their lives.