Thursday, January 1, 2009

Untitled

By Travis J. Wolfkill (2009)

I'm from the place where 
people don't respect you
unless you hustle
but then they want to
take what you've got

I'm from the realm 
of lack of opportunity
surrounded by men
who are masters of bullshit
they blame ignorance on incarceration
yet worship the television

I used to believe in anarchy
until seeing all the sheep
that need governed 
I'm not dead
although people pretend I am

The system has not failed me 
although I have failed the system
I know they are human
and reluctant to recognize me 
as a part of their species

My poetry is power
I mind fuck people
yet free them at the same time
I am neither a pristine saint
or a lowly sinner...
I'm an innovator

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