Theater

Somebody, somewhere

Somewhere, somebody

Oh, wait just a second

Unleash the drainage, make

sure our swamp is emptied

Fill in the blanks, man

There better not be any

empty seats in this auditorium

This word I recite, no

Recite this word, no

Recite, recite, recite

No, no, no

Start the poem all over

Wait

I just got finished penning

another anthology

Ain’t no reason for me

to sleep on prose, wait for 2023

You’ll get that soon enough

A few sequels in the pipeline,

aspiring to outsell everyone

Including Shakespeare

Not only that, but

Come up with a tricky way to perfect a

rhythm no one in history has heard before

Suffrage in the work that I create

My abilities will bring life

to a desolate environment

I could turn the crack houses into condos

Bodegas into shopping malls

like the one in the Meadowlands

PCP filled fields into grand stadiums

Rundown dancehalls into

state-of-the-art performing centers

Crumbling institutions

into prestigious universities

Yes I could, yes I could, yes I could

Ohhhhh yesssss

I could

I can

And…

I will!