Tuesday, January 1, 2008

what the mind is made up of

Everytime people start getting smart and
thinking they know shit I think
about when a kid told me he lived in
Salvador and saw his neighbors
dragged out into the street and shot then how
years later that same kid shot another
kid in a gang fight in LA. The kid was
crying when he told me, but now he's locked
up. That's what I think about when
everyone's smart and I start
to feel smart.

3 comments:

thirdworstpoetinthegalaxy said...

I think I prefer this over Socrates' take (I know only that I know nothing).

ds said...

you've always been nice
when you should
have been
nails. It's that
midwest in you. Maybe
it's the rain that crossed
the border and fell a
mile high. The corn
comes up year after
year. July storms swing
the stalks and ripple the
fields.

You've
always been nice
when you
should have been nails.

thirdworstpoetinthegalaxy said...

Don't I know it.

Not with
criticism,
(as in here)

but rather with

life.