by Mel Brake
Daddy how
Many lies
You want
Me to tell
About
The War
In Iraq
And now
About nuclear
Weapons
IN IRAN
If I get
In trouble
Will you
Come to my aid
Will you
Stand before
The world stage for me
I have been
Your good little
Black girl
Our relationship
Cooked up
Like a supper in the deep
Deep South
In a black pot
Of Rice and Beans
My body to your
Handle
I melt in your
Mouth
Mel Brake is an award winning poet/singer/songwriter. Publications from Philadelphia to New York and beyond have featured his work. He believes that poetry and the arts are the foundation of any sustainable and thriving civilization, and he formed the Mel Brake Family Band to keep the nation together. Recently, his CD chapbook, “Adoration of the Sol” was heard on WLIU FM, Long Island University public radio.
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