Safe Poem 2015

You can relax
Outside your soul
You can play with
Other poets safely
You can take trips
Back and forth in time
Talk about trees
Beauty but not
About their bark
Or the lynching
Hidden in their
Trunks
Without having to
Stop or yield
No cautions on
How you feel
No long poems
About social ills
Or short ones
That call you to
Action
Blank TVs refuse
To show you the
News because
You will be afraid
That your cooking
Shows would get
Interrupted
While Ferguson is
Burning
What you need is
Comfort from
Complacency
You need milk
That never spoils
Lies that are not
Bitter
And truths that
Are gentle to swallow
You need safety
From a poet like me
Someone
That doesn't cause you
Any ripples or waves
In your consciousness
Something you won't
EVER GET FROM ME!!!!
You need a Safe Poem

P.S. The Squirrel and I was just a test
poem to see if you were paying attention.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

wow,the whole ferguson/ cooking show thing...
what we deem important in this day and age is really baffling...

[Jerome F Knox III pseudonym Nefarious J. Dorsey]

Jacob it is not just Ferguson I have felt police brutality on all levels especially with long dreads...