Katusiime Jeresi Poems

If I wake each morning
to eyes dancing with happiness,
If I have one memory secured
of teeth glistening in the suns rays,
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You are so out of tune
a broken melody
a ruthless croon
you are so imperfect
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Of mice and men
Am a woman
born and raised.....in dilapidated housing
shaky and decrepit.
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I met the man by the way side
He stood meekness making a halo around his head
My wildness he didn’t chide
My attention was enslaved by his words
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Wasn't I the old deer?
Glassy eyed
probably brown with dirt?
Does it really matter?
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The day
I say
'I do',
will be a summer afternoon
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Rips and tears beg a sewing,
a quick patching of muscle,
bit by bit glued
till the hole you bore
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If this is my last day
shouldn't I be out of my house
letting my skin absorb its last ray?
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Willing walls for us to perch
established in our need
soldiers keeping watch
by night shelters, indeed.
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Its dope I say
Not dope like the coke
That usually courses your veins
Or like the smoke
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