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by Wetdryvac
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Lineage
March 2, 1992
I give this to a sleeping man
he who sleeps the sleep of death
and I know where he has gone
life is a very strange thing to some
it may seem as a dirty trick played once too often
by some wanton child
but sometimes the trick is played on yourself
mistake that is not
so it is for him
he had a child he never knew
one separate by color and chosen god
but he was not of the strong
he saw only skin, and no mind
mindless turning, never saw
this child grow into a man
years later he finds this man
unknowing of his existence
looking for a place to work
a job on the farm he owns
out in the wastes
still, like mother like son
disposable, ��begone
I will have no darkness on my land
a disgrace to me and my father ��s soil
begone ��
the man, just dark enough, turns
at the end of his line, one last rejection
without a job or choice to own
turned a thousand times before
hard father ��s eyes in the small of his back
stepping into the evening
kills himself
object become object lesson
family of his own separated
torn to the winds
farmer, burned by sun, neck and arms
learns this death and others from the sky
neither happy nor sad, ��an abortion I once had ��
content only that he ��s not got one of them on his land
and the years go by, sky whispering
old farmer, a letter for you
hard on the porch, no rocking
greets mail torn by years, a thing he ��d have buried
handed to him, one neighbor after another, the same letter
��to my almost love ��
I know this is almost nothing for you
a matter of sweet dark night and ignorance
we spent but one moment, enough
and I hold your child in my belly
your color and mine both mark him
I remember both our conversation
sworn invocation and the expression on your face
when morning came, how you wilted with the revelation
how you hated what you ��d hand-fasted
yet your words were true, your words were true
and I offer me to you again in the dark
begin with my son again in the dark
should you ever take me back ��
no motion, chair stopped fifty years ago
I think I understand how you finally got the gun
took yourself behind the barn, and shot you like a dog
ah, how the hate must have rolled in
eating at you in the summer fields
how the love must have galled you
words you recalled, a betrothal sworn
a hard won son destroyed
TV �� tells me our parents teach us to hate
color, difference, man, woman, child
grandfather, I have hate in me to swallow an army
but the world is my brother, god missed out by your act
no heaven, no hell �� just hate
burn, grandfather
burn
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