The Oatmeal Before Breakfast

I rather have all the money

Every day eat steak, lobster & potatoes

Fly every weekend to London for vacation

Walk around the beach until the sand falls asleep in-between my toes.

Or...better yet, I rather own a few condos in Upper Manhattan, San Francisco & downtown Chicago

Wake up everyday to hot coffee, egg & cheese sandwich, & The New Yorker in my hand

Take my personal hair stylist out of my pocket daily

Walk down the street with such a pace as if one of them were walking behind me...a Man.

I would love to argue with business men in suits about their ideas of & on domesticated women 

Teach blacks kids the truth about their black history because obviously I was lied to too...

Meet with the republicans & ask them why a demand so high be made on cutting heath care as if people other than us have the right to deny us power over our bodies too??

Also, may I ask why the Republicans insist that President Obama cuts more out of the budget when he has already cut $1.5 trillion while others believe that the Bush tax is "heaven sent" because it's cuts have been extended permanently to the rich earning $400,000 which are only 2 percent....

I would visit jail cells to offer hope to the broken, volunteer weekly at homeless shelters, and read short stories to kids because it's something that I am passionate about...

Read as many books as I can and write thousands of poems

Study ten different things because exactly who & what I want to be is something that I'm still trying to figure out

Also, to study at different schools in different states without taken out loans

Every summer I would rent a boat because when I die...I can't take those material things with me so what's the point in buying?

So NO that is not me having a "closed mind"

My worth is not determined by the cost of my clothes but my soul, heart & mind, but that makes me a double standard because as I mentioned in my 1st stanza...I want all of the money, in my 2nd stanza...I want all of the condos.

Have I become so blindly materialistic because  I stayed home from church because I didn't have a money offering this time?

We blame society when we are society because we become society...blindly from under our nose.

This is my version of an iambic pentameter...coming to glimpse with myself..........

And just like that...in that very minute...within 60 seconds...I got up from that chair that I have been sitting in forever.

Putting so much of Mac & Sephora's make up on my soul, covering up "my stuff" only because they thought it was wrong & that it's more fun being someone else...

When the real me doesn't even know me because I don't even care about owning three condos, I can live without the coffee & my hair doesn't always have to come with a comb.... 

But let me have my 3rd, 4th, & 5th stanza. Let me LOVE harder than the concrete. Let me help me into understanding why this country just can't teach the people the REAL facts & give Saudi they oil back?? 

Because if you live life in this world without becoming ONE within your own smoke...then you are other people.

Your life is a mimicry

You are like a statue at a museum, something to behold but nothing to hold

Get out of that 1st & 2nd stanza of this perfect life & perfect wife

And wake up to something painful, hard, risk taking, devastating, and dragon slaying because YOUR life that you have NOT fully LIVED is WORTH IT!!