Reid@YWP

I heard from a guy who told somebody

Bout the deserts dry

And the forests muddy

But they forgot to tell bout the rainy skies

every time the

re is uncertain

ty in my life, i 

am extremely

calm, because 

i know that w

hen it is resol

ved, i will feel h

appy or sad and 

either way, i will

feel.

Sometimes words fall out senselessly,

no meaning attached.

But because they want to,

not necessarily because

they want to be revealed.

It's as if my pen

has control over me,

writing whatever comes

A story you're told about once every year,

Details increase as you're judged old enough.

Then one year it stops, the story as sparse as it can be,

(i mean)

the work goes on

(in shouted songs & permanent marker protest signs

in places i'm not sure if i can still call home)

the cause endures

(in all the children born to these times and

Note: This is listed as "fiction" but all stories about Earl are real.