photo by Alex Lear
good to the last drop! – talking that smack
(a haiku sequence)
1/
they thrilling as bland
bowls of cream-a-wheat next to
your sweet jellyroll
2/
they salty cracker
crumbs you be a moist loaf of
cinnamon raison
3/
gave up drinking for
lent yet stays drunk sippin’ your
pepper pot liquor
4/
all them other girls
was soup, but see you, you is
some filé gumbo
—kalamu ya salaam
Now, this is some image driven funk right here! The epic nature of the southern allegorical way of seeing thangs can’t be touched by nobody! Close the curtain and roll the credits. Ain’t no mo’ need to be said!