Fifty-seven and stuck at fourteen.
Born a poor street child in Memphis, Egypt.
Now Ruler of the Field of the Fare
Pharaoh of Lakeview.
Yellow skin and bald head covered in green head dress.
Washington decorated. Royal carpets lay before him made of checks forged
with the names of those
buried in pieces behind the Third Dynasty.
Checks held together by safety pins.
Holes poked in the bare toes of the children born
from wandering wombs and a broken heart.
Snagged in their tracks leaving the carpet Hollywood
red for the children to scrub away with bare hands.
Imhotep.
The man called papa, whose DNA is colored different from the miniature
people who scrub his feet.
Keep the growing yellow bald spot on your head coved
with head dressings of Benjamin
That hide the past. Soon revealed and escape.
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