Summer Rogers                                             litmus test Life as real as TV broadcasts pleonasm Trendy narcissism speaks louder than quiet thrift store scrutiny For what initially seemed empowering, naive followers multiplied And trailed after goods that advertised the millennium Believing the other side was green Reality was blown into little pieces Walking the soul, like the dog Gentrifying the neighborhood the same Puffed smoke from their cigarettes between channels Routing their threaded profile towards achievements With billboard poise, wife beater tee shows muscle Sweatshop grief mutely endures Capped-tooth smiles disguise two-piece vanity in show tune happiness through Psychic sex phone cords, installing that lost kindergarten confidence in the receiver Greened pupils watch love ignite orgasms as Duty merely genuflects Reggae twists lock into peepholes of ecstasy Holding open their orifices As silver-plated rings gleam turning fingers Into malignant sticks doused in stardust Painted spirit is peeling at the ends of moral weight Hidden between sheets of acidity bilingual nine stories high. nine generations deep. nine strands outside of my head. hummed questions and quiet response information station and murmured details invisible dedication and blind amour leather paper and glass steel hot, back-browning sun fading into artificial air endless fields turning into a closed wall fluorescent eyes glimmer like light peeking through slanted horizontal blinds blinking people display or expose me, I. self black, period. running my ancestor black, period. running I would like to thank capitalism, Europe, I haven't forgotten about you. "manage the intelligentsia" Summer Rogers's goal has been to transfer her imagination and energy into activities, events, and discussions with generations X, Y, Z. Besides passing along wisdom from the beat and beat up generations, she is a community organizer, youth mentor, and substitute teacher in Chicago. Summer is a Loyola University New Orleans graduate and former intern of the New Orleans Review and New Orleans's OffBeat Magazine. Published in Bad Girl Magazine; Wrapped Around My Neck and Hunger: December, 1997, The Maroon: Women Seen as Weaker Sex by Society: April 1999, WREC Magazine; Iris May Tango Near You: June 1999, OffBeat Magazine; The Revealers: More Than Reggae: June 1999. Summer Rogers		lilip Member Directory Newest Members OnSite Poets Become a member Philosophy Message Board Lingerings Resources,Links and Webrings Search WOAW! Legalities Contact All material submitted by poets and authors remain in their copyright and is not available to be added to any anthology, collection, website, or any other use;personal or otherwise, without the author's permission. Issue Seven BasicFred Nadia Brown Janet Buck Anne Fraser Rosemarie Koch Kelly Ann Malone Marlene McCarty RL Mobley Dianna Morton PJ Nights PBURROUGHS Elena Ray Summer Rogers tanya-cherie
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