slap of a hand, fist or a frying pan cord
sticks broken on our baby backs when we
cried or tended to disagree
with a drunken father who married shotgun me
exit to a broken world to see
so many others abused singularly/collectively
it gave me this sharpened tongue to be
sword and shield against blind authority
in every transaction-intersection choice
to bear silence or articulate with voice
a better way to be even if by distance
so power does not become a virus
tyranny is tiny tinfoil tin-pot dissonance
scratched record arms with holes/disobedience
is one way to create a new freedom
to break down the patriarchal unexplained patterns
abuse a vulture that feeds upon the weak
can be limited when you sing out and speak
SHOUT!
April 12,2009