Saw a Video of Lucinda in Minneapolis

 Saw a video of Lucinda in Minneapolis

Like a good friend to the people

More healing balm

Part of me woke after a long sleep

Now what? A hug.

Skittish poems about the pain I felt

Wondering how to be a writer

If I cut off my left leg, am I a writer?

If I cut off my right arm, am I a writer?

How much sacrifice is too much?

I think you should only sacrifice if you believe

Mostly I want to live

Maybe it's just hygiene

The hardest hygiene you'll ever do

 

I want to live

Was given half a life

Like most of us around here

Predators all around

So many predators I can't think

Here's good company, traveler

I see the predators too. 

After

 After she saved herself, she was able to help mommy to see how she sacrificed, to help her forgive herself

 Not yet though..

The League of Selfish Women

The Family Mission

 

Too many highfalutin ideas

How to be a person

Do you even know?

At what cost art? 

Nurturing Women

 Nurturing women

It's a calling

Those nurturing, non-codependency women

Tell me it exists.

Will I fuck myself up if I wake up and clean the whole house?

First of all, respect for work.

Second, respect the spirit

You don't know jack shit

And can't control the universe

Now dance 

Host the Worker

 Host the worker

Whistle while you work

Host the spirit

Organize the chores

Organize the organizer

Give him food, rest, and music

Then our work is done. 

See What God Has Done

 See What God Has Done

 

Saw a video of Fannie Lou Hamer testifying before congress

Sunflower county! The respect of ages

Ask Mom. But save yourself first.

Land grant universities

Hard Times raised me

The orphan intelligentsia 

How to be a Lady (or Gentleman or Angel)

 How to be a lady 

 

Learn your stripes

 

Privileged people are only worth something to the people if they are organized and polite.

They don't have to be fancy, or ambitiously good.

Be a hollow bone (as the saying goes). 

 

 

Learning How to be a

 Learning how to be a host to myself.

I can't control everything, but making the bed would be nice.