A Note To Donnie, The Barber

Yo Donnie wassup??

I know I said I wanted dreadlocks

this time

(last time)

and I still do.

I want’em tight & neat

crowning the top

of my nappy head with frizzes at the ends,

and I want’em growing down my back

like Bob Marley’s, but this time

I can’t do it; I gotta establish

myself AGAIN

as an intelligent educated black man

for an upcoming interview,

and I can’t give them any extra excuses

to prejudge me that they will already use,

despite my being more than qualified for the position.

so, cut it shorter this time, man.

Yo, Donnie, cut it real short and even,

but don’t cut any of the soul away. 

Alieux Casey-George   , 1999

If

i don't understand

how one can 

consider themselves

complete

without love.

when I was single I was always looking for you.

i feel you've made my life better

just by being in it,

&

if you were to leave

there would be a void

so big

so deep

that 5 women could not fill.

--

         ( a rough draft- not sure it's done)

You make me

You make me want 
to search for the first line
to the type of love poem
a new one
the first line powerful enough
to make you wet
before I even composed the second line.