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