<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I then wore his eyes…</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I met him reading the forward on “Voices from Leimert Park: a poetry anthology”<br>Glued to his words; I wanted to wear his eyes<br>I searched and searched for his whereabouts<br>I then purchased a one-way ticket and slept between his words.<br>Pages after pages his poetry became my sanity<br>Drinking this marathon of knowing<br>I came across an image, What a beauty! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I then wore his eyes and saw…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Folds of memoirs, <br>An antic mahogany well polished and aged, <br>Eye lids heavy with expression, <br>Books resting on his shoulder, <br>His mouth full of “Beat” notes, <br>He is a graduate of life school<br>An alumnus of mother earth…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I then wore his soul…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Placed my face on the cold glass<br>watched “Jazz” floating on the bayou<br>I carved his name out of my pain, <br>whispered my want in his absence, <br>poetry touching my breast, <br>music kissing my lower lips, <br>in and out of consciousness, <br>I welcomed him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I then wore his eyes…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poetry, music, religion, humanity all that and more<br>by the time I finished my conversation<br>He stayed on the screen and I took him to my country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>dedicated to Bob Kaufman... American Beat poet and surrealist inspired by jazz music and revolutionist. <br>© 2009 Emu Getachew</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emu+Getachew">Emu Getachew</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558146" data-title="I then wore his eyes… de Emu Getachew" data-description="I met him reading the forward on “Voices from Leimert Park: a poetry anthology” Glued to his words; I wanted to wear his eyes I searched and searched for his whereabouts I then purchased a one-way ticket and slept between his words. Pages afte..."></div> </div> </div>

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