THIS DAY

THIS DAY

we detaining you
this day

because we suspect
you know someone
who knows someone
who
   knows someone

who knows
something
                maybe

and have you down
to your skants
in case you got
a missile launcher
in
   your pants

you’ll always remember
this day

the day you were intelligence
                                  gathered
by the experts

whose consummate expertise
got us
   into this situation
in
the first place

ABOVE

ABOVE

am so low
on devil energy

so low
on toxic masculinity

the serpent in me
low on hard
muscular power

the shattered lives of
those I loved
and left

envenomed, possessed
by my seed
left by the wayside

watching from the roadside
as I four by four
steamroller ahead

trucking my pilgrimage
to my date with destiny

no one more
sure of

his role in this world
place in Heaven, my
paradise above