Excerpt from "Rhapsody In Onyx"

this world is no place
for a beautiful woman such as you

full of deceptive smoke and mirror tricks of
how you are to be
a stale status quo implanted in infertile soils of
non thinking people

they laugh at you
while their image lay slain
on the torn battlefields of their minds
sprouting bloody appendages
from their hemispheres

this is not a place for a beauty
such as you/ this place, whose façade is
a billboard of pasted on breasts
and sewn on lips/
artificial skin tones and collagen hips,
a world where women become montages
of magazines and video clips

YOU are the remaining organic
offspring of God’s hand

with altostratus tears
and mahogany winds
Sequoia soul
Hyacinth twin/

YOU are all that needs to
BE

(c) 2007 Sean Garrison