Oakland Stories

Side show Juliet special effects Black Girl White Girl Oakland X In the dark it all makes sense Love is    West side Romeo stealing cars Tattooed muscles skin and scars In his eyes you can see the stars Love is    All is love Love is all   Late night Lancelot purple sky Photoshop gunshot lullaby Kiss the boys and make them cry Love is love    Punch drunk Guinevere bittersweet Train wreck triple deck one way street Drops t...

I. Prison Blues and Familiar Faces Buzzed in and buzzed out, Cameras tracking shadow with Glass eye and red blinking light One last fuck-up, one lapse in judgment To send black ass back Under boot of man. No luck, no attempt, Just shuffling feet. Trading orange jumpers for denim and whites A pair of Jordan’s no memory of owning. There’s a pocket worth of change And a broken watch, That skips back and forth Tick tock, four...

Black girl, brown girl, white girl…   A tattoo of rain on the window pane A military drum, fitting in its way You wouldn’t recognize me, Oakland Brass buttons and polished boots The eyes of a soldier Cold and hard No longer the naked warrior, spear held high Face painted bright Challenging the heavens Full of laughter and love. Last night I watched you burn Fists clenched in anger Defiant Flames of passion curling around...

The lullaby of 24th street haunted my steps. A far off siren heralding yet another robbery gone bad. Laughter fueled by too much liquor and swearing fed by frustration. Voices raised in anger, seething with barely contained violence. The sound of a bottle shattering into a billion pieces on the side walk across the street. Hip hop or RnB exploding from a bar every time the door opened. And always, the frightened pitter pa...

Black boy, brown boy, white boy, It makes no difference in the dark, And when I’m with you It’s always night. Street light is broken again, Only the moon casting light through the bars Dowsing us in shadowed strips of cool; Just enough to see the laughter in your eyes. Drenched in sweat and cum And tangled together like Oroborus, My mouth full of kisses and cock, Yours dripping with cunt. So full of love for the girl whos...