Quotes and Poems: Day 13

Quote:

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."– Albert Einstein

Poem:

Chimera

BY VIEVEE FRANCIS

She's not "m9aternal," she's dangerous.

—Jamaal May

I have no charms. Admittedly.

No gold comb can move through

This mane. My skin is not translucent.

Mine is a tail to fear. I know.

And though a mother may destroy,

She too sees fit to create beauty

That would eventually grow into forms

I would swallow if I gave in

To my hungers. But, up from my wounds—

From this goat's body—

Up from my wood-smoke lungs, from

The milk of me, comes a song, a melody

To open yours, then lick them clean.