<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“My Own Two Feet” </b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">by Abu Malik</span></div><div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Poetry/My_Own_Two_Feet.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Poetry/My_Own_Two_Feet.mp3</a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My pockets are empty as they are too often</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crease in these old jeans is too hard to soften.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, people see me coming from miles away</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And they poke their friends with a jab and say.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Hey, look at him. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ain’t</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> he strange?</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Look at that. Thin as a page.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Where does he live? Do you know?</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No. Wait. Stop. Be quiet ‘till he goes.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is he gone now? Yeah. But his steps are slow.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I guess there’s no hurry to get home to the rats and the crows.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or the dusty floorboard that he calls a bed.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yeah, but he’s got all the room in the world to rest his head.”</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That’s true. I do. And I sleep to dream.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The unconscious mind is more real than it seems.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In here my hope is real.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And I don’t worry about those who kill or steal.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, I’m comfortable here on my own two feet.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Later tonight God and I will finally meet.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the world will be quiet except for the cheers;</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nations of people without pain or fear.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A world full of hope and eyes open wide</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Where hatred and bigotry can no longer hide.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And hands of every color take hold of each other</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And every woman is respected as a sister or a mother.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, I’m closing my eyes to finally see</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A brand new world where every human being is free.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the only thing I’ll need when I walk down the street</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Are my two empty pockets and my own two feet.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p></div>———————————————<div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>