[To Be a Man] a poem

[To Be a Man] A Poem

There’s only one way to be a

better man; & that way,

is not the way of a manufactured

man,

A phantom of a phantom,

where compromised become of

defects, defection,

& feet falling forward cease

to footsteps from behind;

So there is a flaw,

there seem to be many,

I hear tell, as the census takers

take no time in figuring,

then from them,

the man,

who is not so much more worse off

than the next being applauded,

sees in himself acclimation,

henceforth never a change,

a wink dwindling beyond as far

as I will ever see-

Dontrell Lovet't

from, [The Failed Writer]