DeWayne Davis

I'm the one who takes joy in wearing New Balances because they make me walk faster than when I wear Timberlands. I hold cityscape documentaries filmed with a bus pass and the lens are the windows.

I'm the one who writes poems out of frustration and read them out loud in simile. I'm the one who takes metaphors and strips them of all meaning and dress them up with make up, colors, Lucky Charms, Philippians, Galatians, Romans, cracked pavements, chicken cheese steaks, graham cracker cheesecake crusts and pillow stuffings....I'm the one who drinks chai religiously. I'm the color of bananas. I'm the warning label on construction paper.

I'm the pen that's been in a pocket for too long. I'm the two year old sleeping during house parties. I'm middle C on the piano. I'm the unmade bed. I'm wax splashing out of the candle left burning over night. I'm the plane ticket to Bermuda and the loan received for debt consolidation.

I'm the penny laying tales down, heads up. I'm the fart that gets rid of your stomach pains. I'm the reason you smile at yourself in mirrors. I'm CTRL ALT DEL when all else fails. I am nobody. I am somebody. I am [God's] Quill.