I AM FROM
I am from Lambert Street, lead contaminated row homes boxed in by drug dealers and addicts.
I am from freedom and responsibility with choices to fly high and dream big.
I am indivisible by nine.
I am from the crossroads of Kansas City and South Philadelphia.
I am from Mars and Venus, a butcher and a seamstress.
I am from burnt food, technical prowess and creative ingenuity.
I am from independent thinkers who created art by the lives they lived.
I am from baseball, fishing, crossword puzzles, pinochle, scrabble and sudoku.
I am from 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' and 'What the samhill is the matter with you?'
I am from garlic cloves and Ms. Van Esther.
I am from meatballs, Spaghetti and brachioles on Sunday dinner.
I am from the fear of Sr. Margaret St. Francis and the gentleness of Sr. Eleanor.
I am from music imagination, dreams and miracles.
I am from justice, civil rights, and taking a stand.
I am from freedom and responsibility indivisible by nine minus one.
I am from past, present and future and all worlds in between.
I am still becoming.
June 6, 15, 2007
