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How Can You See the Whole Picture If You’re Stuck in The Frame   

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How can you see the whole picture if you’re stuck in the frame

         This is your Fault

                                    You did this to me

I feel like the evil villains of Superman, trapped and framed in the Phantom Zone, floating in the abyss of space

      Now I need to explore my own space, my own trap

The confinement of four walls, this frame, and the stiff backing that I can only feel.

      I do not see anything behind me, nor can I see through the top, bottom or to either side

Yet Behold

         Everything before me is changing, moving

    Heaving and Breathing

My perception is alive and very clear

       They peer in the picture, they judge the construction of the frame 

Passing by some ruminating on what is pleasant in the content they perceive

      What catches your eye

        What stirs your spirit

The color or the lack of

     Shade or Shadow

   Do you prefer black and white or skittle-haired exuberance

                  Picasso, Pollock, or Van Gogh

Do you feel indifference or gratitude  from whitewashed men of old

     They are literally whitewashed

I read of Ethiopian slave Aesop and his fables while studying

   He was framed as Greek

       Others framed and defined him as swarthy, potbellied and misshapen

Swarthy means dark skinned

      Roman and European history, It’s  all Greek to me

I am pale for a black man and yet my skin is still too dark for some

                      How Can I See The Whole Picture If I Am Stuck In This Frame

Do you know why you’re here? gurgled the judge 

       His jowls and face trembling, reminiscent of an overweight bulldog

    Quickly and crisply I respond

I WAS FRAMED

                You fit the description he quipped

 I most definitely do and I will not deny it

Fuck…..I fit every description except lettering quarterback from Hicksville and Asian Tiger did that for us………Cablasian?!?!?!?!? REALLY?

He was also adamant about being framed

         Set Up with sex

Filthy white waitresses in crisp clean marble bathrooms of racist Country Clubs

        Those darkies are insatiable!

I was framed

       I am naked and alone

I am at piece 

         Bliss is realizing that we are pieces of art

We have been framed and hung with care

    Others see beauty in what we ourselves cannot 

I cannot perceive what is in your seeking soul

     Honestly I do not wish to

                            I am muddled and melodramatic that is how my house was built and framed

Please explain it to me slowly…….sweetly………as if it is forbidden

    This must be done quietly and in secrecy

An all-encompassing synapse of what you abhor, adore, and admire

  Do you see yourself in this frame

           Trapped

                        Set free

                                    Unabashed and unashamed

Madness or Tranquility

        I am looking at a mirror in my hall, on my wall, awkwardly smiling

I love being me

       I truly enjoy being Insane

Don’t frame yourself  and you will always be free

   Adjusting the frames on my blood rose colored glasses

Realizing my behavior and speech are indicative of my heart, thus paramount to my feelings

     My life’s work has been put on display and framed by fire for the world’s hypocrites and misfits to gawk at

    Marvelous, Mischievous, Degenerates

Scratching hard on my balding brain case

    I perceive a frame of mind that is distinctly mine

It is often shared freely for all to pick at and examine without prejudice

    Framed in this masterpiece that is existence

          A wonderful work of Art and Life

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