heavy rain

on some new shit- reading this nikki giovanni book got me feeling inspired and i'm finding a my way back on to the writing scene. a wise friend once told me that i needed to try to write...even through the times when i thought the poems weren't that good...so that's what i've decided to do. and even though this damn keyboard on this laptop i got from school is jacked up, it's all good. and i've decided not to even go back and fix the double spaces because that's how life is...sometimes things are screwed up...so you should understand the spacebar on this machine...but anyway- the poem

heavy rain

the pages
of my book
of life
weren't turning
too smoothly
because the storm
came
and stopped
and hovered
over our house
for a while

and the bills
were due
and the job
became
overwhelming
and the friends
started complaining
and the family
was falling
apart
and the car
stopped working
and gas went up
by twenty cents
and daddy
wouldn't answer
my damn phone calls
and the students
weren't doing
their homework
and the wedding
was fastly approaching
and the money
wouldn't come
for another
two weeks
and a ticket
was issued
and bill money
was spent
and the cable
was turned off
and the gas
was turned off
and the electricity
was about t o
be turned off
but then

the storm passed