THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST, AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST, AND THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

A Poem by Chad Wesley Allbrett
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Grabbing empathy like shoppers in a mall riot.

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Scratchy records in a third world tin, and
sheet metal building,
Hooked up to a car alternator
dem' doin' whaat day can fo da soundd.
chickens are there as well.
Reggae on Sunday, muddy like after the rain.
A whip over a grave, prayers over a lowered
body outside of the line of
shacks.
Mixed up impressions lay on me like my second hand clothes;
my mind that is sweating like my body.
Heat for dis Yannkay bowy.
A grave and than a meal for those left behind her to eat still.
And their all dressed up like
a sixties sound they play perhaps, you know how rude bowys
wore black suits, pencil thin ties and stingy brim hats?

What do I know about any of it though?
All I have is the perceptions I carry with me,
and the card of being human.


Like Heroin sweetly smacked in Toronto.
Don't I just know
about things to do on a ice day?
North threw your veins without reason.
All for what you can get
in a season.


 

© 2008 Chad Wesley Allbrett


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Chad Wesley Allbrett
Chad Wesley Allbrett

Orofino ID./ Walla Walla Wash., ID



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Haven't been on here in a long time. I live in Orofino ID. I'm the son of a logger, the grandson of a miner, and the great-grandson of cowboys and homesteaders. I'm a fifth generation native of the b.. more..

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