VINYL POETRY

Volume 3, May 2011

BIRDIE
Derrick Weston BrownView Contributor’s Note

Tremor

Boy baked bean colored Boy The energy just be sprinting through your body gazelles through your body and you can’t help but to hover waver halfway between the bases of common sense and last straw Boy you want to be everybody’s friend bad jokes feet the size of welcome mats B.O. oily skin welcome to the molting Boy so annoying still learning how to carry this new heft trying to spin silly into swag O’ Boy Can’t hold still the volts keep coming Boy Soft eyed Boy hiding behind herky jerk buck up slap fight say it with yo chest Boy Girls undiscovered country undecipherable tongue Rosetta Stoneless Boy Sweat soaked shirt Hand me downs Let me down easy lost Boy Energy inner alchemy mistaken for ADD Boy Just need focal point Boy Poems to conduit confidence Boy Don’t you know how to mute the tremor to a hum Boy? What they been teaching you Boy? What they been feeding you boy? You grown. You grown!? You grown Boy?