i come from
a biweekly issue
an altruistic soul
monsters under the bed
you'd rather come from your closet instead
i come from success
even defeat
from white lies
from deceit
i come from crooked smiles of
black bucktoothed queens
i come from love and despair
from unanswered questions
the tortoise
and the white hare
the dock of the pacific ocean
across the atlantic and back
from hi-ways and
byways and
road trips and
stereotypical cliches
i come from a massacre lasting for weeks
resulting in jetlagged speech
i come from the sandbox
and hide·n·seek;
from the beauty of optic distortion
from the interpretations of
the figments of my own imagination
i give you biweekly issues of an altruistic soul.