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For Margaret & Porter







use to be eye would be lying there
in margaret's lap, longside her sweet
soft thighs, on sunday mornings, sipping
champagne, sucking on her soft, open lips
drinking in the love from her moist, brown eyes
now, porter's there, giggling, twenty month old
squirming squeals-a tiny, spitting image of me-
his eyes kissing everyone, including me, & me?
well, yall, eye'm sitting here, apart from them
hungry, alone, in my favorite chair
watching television
& watching them, watching me



Quincy Troupe




Audio file courtesy of Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records