2 poems by StreetWise Vendor Lady David Tillman

You Say You Work Too Hard

That I Know Is Pig Lard

If I Let You In My House, You Be A Rodent Mouse!

Even Though We Never Dated

I Thought You Never Hated

Now My Heart's Been Splintered, Almost Didn't Make It Thru Winter!

Last Semester Of School

Nothing In My Mind Is Cool

So I Bought Disney, Don't Like It Miss Me

My Favorite Aunt Died

Couldn't Go To The Funeral Not Even Cry

So Yes I Popped Pills, Not Gonna Lie

This COVID-19 Nonsense

People Don't Use Common Sense

6 Feet, Wear A Mask, Is That A Hard Task

Numbers Are Rising

Riots Feel Like Advertising

Don't Go After The Cops, Burn Down Your Shops

I Write Lines

I Write Rhymes

Coffee Drink

Yes I Think

Won't Paint My Nails

But I Might As Well

Make My Bed

So I Lay My Head

Ain't Gone Lie

So Sad I Can't Even Cry

6/17/2020

All Lives Matter

Funnier Than A Richard Pryor Joke

When You See A Black Man, In A Hold That Chokes.

All Lives Matter

Sounded Quieter Than A Mouse

When Breonna Taylor

Got shot and killed in her own house

All Lives Matter

Oh drink a Corona

When Black On Black Violence

Gets Less News Than The Corona

All Lives Matter

Tell Me This

Can You Identify The Bodies

Swimming With The Fish

All Lives Matter

Do You Look At The Pages

Of All The Immigrants

Locked In Cages

All Lives Matter

Do You Let It Slide

When Native American Teens

Are Number 1 In Suicide

All Lives Matter

Don't Tell A Lie

You Just Started Your Movement

When The Flags Of No More Injustice Started To Fly

Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and White

If All Lives DID Matter

I Wouldn't Have To Write

6/10/2020

Both poems © David Anthony Tillman. Used by permission.