Reward.

[aquabean]

Got paid yesterday. Cooked a good dinner, had left-overs for lunch today and decided I was finally gonna cave and buy myself that present I've been wanting for ages. So I wend to Borders and bought Nikki Giovanni's Collected Poems.

(for people)

Kidnap Poem
by Nikki Giovanni

ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i'd kidnap you
put you in my phrases and meter
you to jones beach
or maybe coney island
or maybe just to my house
lyric you in lilacs
dash you in the rain
blend into the beach
to complement my see
play the lyre for you
ode you with my love song
anything to win you
wrap you in the red Black green
show you off to mama
yeah if i were a poet i'd kid
nap you

Comments

[nightfallrising.livejournal.com]

I'm hearting your typo, for some reason. It's probably the poetry.

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Nah, you heart me all the time. *is totally brazen*

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

I really love that final line break.

[runefallstar.livejournal.com]

Her poetry is all structured so that it really affects the way you'd read it out loud. She came and spoke at Kenyon my jr. year -- brilliant. She reads it the way the slam poets would, and having heard her, I can't help but read it now in the same voice.