April 2, 2010

Speed Dating

By Tony Brown

Hey —
are you
vessel
or conduit?
Do you contain
or channel?

Are you
content or process?
Are you intention
or execution?

Don’t even try to push me —
don’t care if you’re black or white —

are you, instead,
colonizer or colonized?
Oppression or resistance?

If you answer,
I could be any
and am all,

we can speak further;

but if you choose,
you choose
alone.

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A poet with a history in slam, lots of publications; my personal poetry and a little bit of daily life and opinions. Read the page called "About..." for the details. View all posts by Tony Brown

This entry was posted on Friday, April 2nd, 2010 at 12:32 am and tagged with meditations, poems, poetry and posted in poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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4 responses to “Speed Dating”

• Laura Yes Yes
  April 2nd, 2010 at 5:04 pm

  Nice shift in tone, honey.

  Reply
  • Tony Brown
    April 2nd, 2010 at 7:04 pm

    Ah, thank you.

    Reply
• taramillerwrites
  April 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm

  it is so true that to be whole, we are all these things, not one or the other.

  Reply
  • Tony Brown
    April 2nd, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Yup. Self-awareness is critical.

    Reply

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