Michael Kasenow - Novels Jim Crow Prejudice, Novels Jim Crow Racism, Historic Novels, Jim Crow Racism

SURVIVING CANCER
Night will come soon enough.
A change will surely come.
Put away your bullets
And pounding of your drums.
Reach for what you cannot touch,
For change will surely come.

Is Heaven filled with angels?
A change will surely come.
Does it roll and flow in valleys
'Neath a crimson, halo sun
Or is it quiet, cold and black?
A change will surely come.

Winter winds are grazing.
A change will surely come.
Put away your restlessness,
Masquerades and sum
Of what you think you are
For change will surely come.

Six Feet Down is a collection of poems that break through the walls of idealism and naivete´. The voices are mature with respect for mortality, regret and the empty promise of broken dreams. Lost love, materialism, alienation, and the need for purpose are a few of the themes and threads that tie these visions together. There is disappointment here, and despair, but there is also the acceptance that life is what we make it out to be. Control is the illusion; choices are all we have. SIX FEET DOWN is a walk through memory and time—a passage through the inevitable—the truth of what is. Here are some samples from the e-book you can download for free.

SWEETWATER
...And so I called after all these years.
"There's always a catch," that's what she said.
A month to the day and now she's dead.
"With three husbands who needs a career?"
Bitterness glossed behind veneer.
The trade she made for thoroughbreds,
Provence wine and fancy bread.
"How in the hell d’ya find me here?"

She stumbled and slurred about Mozambique.
Sweetwater had lost her voice.
She once said: "It's all about choice."
But those days are like an old antique.
It's a hell-u-va way to start a week—
Flowers and prayers: A box for Joyce.