Sandra Lee
black spirit horse
scared sleepless
all these yes ma’am’s
and wide open doors
are making her no-you-can’t self veeery nervous
she considers sewing her cliff-jumping-self’s trap shut
flapping noises about this and that
Freedom, this, and just DO that, that
you don’t pay the man, man!
the hemming and the hawing
and the sideways step
she stutters when Satan asks why
gulps and mumbles her hesitant…reply
to get busy living is more alarming
than the dark comfort of get busy dying
Death is frightening
and so is Eternal Life