Copped the new
Jordans today hadn’t
planned on any excess
hadn’t planned on being
this type of capitalist
even if I was trying to please
my growing child trying to find
some shoes she will age
out of before the year lays
itself to rest the two-hundred-
dollar tag on the Jordans
is not what I need not what
this responsible family man
budgeted for and I don’t
really have it but I woke up
as black as my own bed
so maybe I do
have it maybe I want
for nothing until I cross
the street or I drive my car
faster than I should every alley
can be a speed trap
and becoming nothing
is a very real possibility
and maybe I don’t care what
I can afford when I’m just hoping
to be here
when the package arrives