just a kid

Confidence is an irony. It’s flashing lights in the summer noon sun. A little unexpected, an overage, a foot on the scale. Drinking water reverses the glare, finds the dead spot and brings it back to full foliage. This is no accident.

a full grown man, the fool grown man. Which of these is reflected? Throw the bones and pull the cards. Bathe the feet and turn the cheek. Cock the gun and raise that flag. Equality is not equity. we all have…