FREEDOM
FREEDOM TASTES LIKE
Girls of Summer +their spangly shoes
One on pink park bench mysteriously
painted under full moons Now strewn
across our frenzied city soon to be in
Pan Am purgatory
She an almost-goddess serenely perched
Gold sandals encrusted with jewels Young
Queen of Sheba reigns over milquetoast boys
in Trinity
One on a uni-cycle with music blaring Red
Hot Chilis Give it away Give it away Give it
away Now I don’t know about you but I’m
keeping mine Keep it like the Kaiser drones
Anthony Kiedis heroin befriended lead Pepper
Unlike the 80 lb. nine year old boy who caught
a seventy-five year old 600 lb. fish +gave it back
to the Fraser River: cause if you kill them there
won’t be anymore to catch
The giant white fish born at the end of WWII
Mother of all sturgeons Our freedom fish But
don’t you be fooled Ain’t nobody perfect Ain’t
nobody free Miss Nina Simone just whispered to me
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Summer 2015
