Friday, July 25, 2025

Dean Okamura


spitting seeds

 

I woke up this morning 

angry again 

from reading the news 


or better said 

angry hearing 

strong opinions 


from people 

with weak 

understanding 


they say most folks 

get their news 

off social media 


which can be 

like piping sewage 

into our homes 


so our neighbor's nasty 

starts stinking up our place 

... which doesn't happen 


with watermelon seeds 

we spit them out 

and they don’t come back 


too bad politicians 

ain’t watermelon seeds 


writing this on paper 

helps me spit out 

my anger 


but unlike eating watermelon 

nothing sweet 

stays in my mouth 


but sometimes 

fruit grows out of 

nothing 


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