Street Poet

Street Poet

He attempts to wrap his words around
callous streets- raw lullabies stripped

of urban decay to bare meanness. Murky
lingo of  black argot, rhyming doggerel

of booties and bitches drawn to bling,
gold teeth and basketball paraphernalia.

Head bobbing, shoulder-rolling, crotch-
grabbing street poet. He struts like a lottery

winner, pimps his ride, shows his ass garishly
as young suburban girls, eyes closed, sway

and scream to words and rhythm that only
the father he never knew would understand.