Sunday, July 14, 2013
Candy and Tea
Candy and tea is a weird combination to me.
Perhaps one or the other,
belong to the 12 year old brother.
Candy and tea has never really appealed to me.
Or is it walking in the rain for it a little insane.
Candy and tea will never agree with me.
Or perhaps its the hoodie covering my head,
or something I might have said,
to cause me to wind up dead.
You can taste the rainbow,
get married in the rainbow,
get rights for the rainbow,
I just don't know.
Or you can drink tea from Arizona
and by morning be a goner.
Or you can move to Arizona,
and face conservative cacti
that will prick you,
and pick you,
and trick you,
and flick you,
and nick you.
I just don't know.
And Florida with its bad weather,
bad voting booths,
and scandalous truths.
Stand your ground,
only to be found,
on the ground,
shot down by a mad dog,
without a badge,
without a care,
property value means more I dare.
Black life rates real low,
just don't go to the corner store
Skittles and Arizona tea.
Skittles rings up at $1.09.
Arizona tea rings up $1.09.
Don't forget the tax.
Because they tax our lives.
They tax our pain.
They tax our babies out in the rain.
Just a doggone shame.
Nothing left to explain.
Candy and tea just doesn't do it for me.
Richard J Wright 2013
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