brown

for Ornette Coleman

If I was half the f*g I was in the 80's, i'd want it back,

all of it, lost.

I would want what was depicted, surrounded by dancing satyrs and maenads. Like the jerry curl

again, slick and glistening, dripping "Lonely Woman" on our unforgiving collars. It's that we just

didn't get it. Not then. Not now. Like sex in the car, we didn't want it slow, we wanted it quick before

someone saw through the steam and fog of windshields gone horribly horizontal. Like a speeding

train, some of us don't know beauty well enough to stroke the back of it's nap. Had I fallen in love

young, would we not place the plastic border now against the iris bed? Nothing on earth can mean the

glorification of supreme worth. With the price sticker still attached, the Sofn' free curl moisturizing

spray (with jojoba oil) sits ready as it it's 79 again, when Michael Jackson was "Off the Wall" and brown

as a brownie. Brown as my Sony radio. Brown as oak tree branches. (And i'm groping for anything

brown in my wardrobe). Oh yeah, brown as a pair of brown Bostonians the one's I wore to dads

funeral. Brown like the tobacco of his Chesterfield Kings. Brown as the brown slick in his drawers. Brown

as the visiting nurse. Brown as the gone mad police chief. Brown as the fist of Tamir Rice, the one

that held the plastic pistol. Brown as a riot. How can a riot be brown? What I mean is, brown as

the burned seat cushions of the overturned Crown Victoria. Brown as pizza box lettering. Brown

as CVS looting. Brown

as the t**d filled sky.

Reviews

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All natural, uncomplicated, real comfortable...real. Jusr as everything should be. I love the earthy tone of this write :)

[h d e rushin]

thank you Lynn for stopping by and offering those kind words.....Just got my internet service restored after the Midwestern wind storm of two weeks ago.....I love your words my friend ...dana

[leow]

thats a very very loud responsive and very cray.but rilly how could a riot be brown.i love it....

[h d e rushin]

thanks leow for stopping by, and glad you found something meaningful here.....dana

[Redboy]

This was Awesome : ) I don't get the first line though.

[h d e rushin]

thank you MOODiBROWN for those kind words...And as for that first line, I don't get it either...read morethank you MOODiBROWN for those kind words...And as for that first line, I don't get it either...

dana

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, we flew through the passion in those back seats...always afraid of getting caught...
we had to find places that were temporarily safe.

love the whole thing here with michael...when he was himself...not striving to be, well whoever that was.

i smoked chesterfields for awhile...and i also worked for a couple years at Brown Shoe Co. in one of their factories making Naturalizer shoes....kind of coincidental with your idea in this poem...
the shoes weren't really brown...but...had a natural fit.

sort of like life does, if we take the time to give it that chance to.

[h d e rushin]

thanks for that insight dear brother..I'm glad somebody rememberd Chesterfield Kings in this
"Newport in the box, Kool menthol world we live in today. Thanks for stopping by...dana