the ugly earring

found at fern and moss

Sweetheart
when you break thru
you’ll find
a poet here
not quite what one would choose.

I won’t promise
you’ll never go hungry
or that you won’t be sad
on this gutted
breaking
globe

but I can show you
baby
enough to love
to break your heart
forever

poem: song for baby-o, unborn by diane di prima
image found here

“She was of the old beat generation that felt you had to be burning the candle both ends and dying of hunger to call yourself an artist.”

(from here )

have another listen here.