afro-beat paradise with the disembodied spirit who now believes he can love
        "But these were trees without roots ... Can disembodied spirits love?"
                        — Boris Max, Native Son

i'm sho there was
times i tall the past

&

everything i'm about
to say is true

(beat)

i want to take you back
to africa/ i want to father
many children with you/
dress them with red earth
& leaves/ put their photos
on instagram for all the
haters to behold

i want to take them on
safari/ show them the
game/ dangle them over
the lion's mouth/ i want
you to make the best
fufu in all the land/ & to sell
our produce to restaurants
with michelin stars

i want you
(short beat, thinks of words careful!y)
to
only
dream
intwi

&

when we come back from
vacation/ for the children
to dance & sing

mama & papa have come
home to see their children/
now the war is over

mama & papa have come
home to see their children/
now we will have peace

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from The Unbnd Verses
Glass Poetry Press
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