I’m a poet who can’t read, my brain is short wired Quick to chance the distractions. Boggle the memory. Get sedated by the medications. I can’t read like those polished professionals who grew up with an educated father and maternal, well-versed mother. I’m not interested in scanning lines of dead texted when I now have the freedom to watch a screen. I’m apologize. Were you talking to me?
Beautiful, as she meandered into the profile picture of her dreams. Hair meticulously styled, angle right, and artificial light to highlight that which is dark. I thought, certainly she was someone to befriend, yet she wanted nothing to do with me. She loved to sin. I found a woman with a double chin, bags under her eyes, walking around the block, taking it all in. I thought her time had come and gone, nothing more to my life could she add. Wishing she’d be a mere acquaintance, I left after our small conversation, not recognizing she was the definition of a friend.