Race Man
Kevin Simmonds | Poetry
for AB
You rode me not to be a mule
when I slipped into lyricism
Summertime & the livin’ is easy
carrying that same yolk
thinning my voice to a nasally timbre
Kum Ba Yah indeed
Break the glass of the line
Get the ax & get at it
Bring down any poem with heavenly ambition
What the livin’ gon’ do with a heavenly poem
Better yet who say they God & still be the Devil
Kevin Simmonds is a writer and musician originally from New Orleans. His latest collection is Bend to It, and he is the editor of Ota Benga Under My Mother’s Roof, the final collection of noted South Carolina writer Carrie Allen McCray. His poems have recently appeared in The Cincinnati Review, diode, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly. He divides his time between San Francisco, New York and Japan.
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