Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Looking For Me


Looking for Me

I remember reading
Mills and Boons
You know,
Like Danielle Steele?

I remember the woman on the cover
Hair streaming over the arms of
A muscular
White man

She
White too

I remember how I started to look for me
To look for the little girl
With the braids dotting
Dotting she head
Like the pieces on a
Checkerboard

Sometimes I read 4 or 5 books
All in one day
Just looking
Looking for me

The little girl with the braids
Dotting she head
Like the pieces on a

Checkerboard

One day it was a redhead with
Green eyes
The next?
A blonde with blue
But never a little girl
Caramel brown
Real chubby and cute
Almond shaped eyes
Soft and brown
Like plump just washed
Raisins
Lips purple-red like
Fresh juicy plums

I remember
Never finding that little girl

The little girl
With the braids dotting
Dotting she head
Like the pieces on a
Checkerboard



Taken from unpublished work "Muse Melodies"

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