Thoughts of a Man All Over The Place

By Robertson Greene

About the book 
This book of poetry is a reflection of life; my life. The parts that are festive and the parts that are not so festive. I wanted the readers to capture that about my writings. The important part about this project was that I was able to candidly show my flaws. It was important for me to let the readers

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rufus Robertson
• Release date: Apr 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9780578672854

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© 2018 Robertson Greene

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For my Mother; my best friend and greatest inspiration.

- Love Nunn

&

For my lovers; my best friends’ and beautiful disasters

- Love Rob

Contents

1971

A Man In Danger

A Slave Story

A Slave’s Dream

Ain’t No Way

Alexis Paige

All Over the Place

Ambrosia

America, You Bitch

An Addict to a Pipe

Anxiety

Assiduously

Au revoir Desdemona

Aunt Delores

Awkward & Unanswered

Ball & Chain

Barcelona

Being Just Fine

Bipolar in Love

Black Man

Black So and So

Block Party

Blow the Horn

Bobby as Fallon Called Him

Brixton

Cake

Catamaran

Catch Back

Catching Hell

Cocaine and The Man

Colorism

Congo Square

Corporate America

Country Day

Dear Married Woman

Death

Don’t Shoot Me

Dope Man Blues

Eatonville

Eight O’clock Pacific Time

Eleanora

F%#k You

Familiar Stranger

Faye Mildred

Fiend

Fool of The Year

Four Fathers

Free Me

Frenchman Street

Funky Good Time

Good, Bad, Ugly

Got Plenty/Don’t Got

Grapes on a Table

Great Pretender

Gris-Gris

Howling Like a Wolf

I Don’t Mind

I Exfoliated

I Feel Good

I Groove

I Hate Math

I’m In Music

I’m Just Not….

In the Raw

Insane Asylum

Irritable Man Syndrome

It Is Me

Last Night I Made Love to

Lemon

Let Me Be

Libya

Living Forever

London

Lotus

Loved You to Death

Loving Through the Storm

Lucea

Manhattan Streets

McClendonville

Meadger Evers

Mister Rufus Regrets

Modern Man

My Greatest Inspirations

My Mind & Coltrane

My Mother Is

Myths

Nairobi

N-digo Blues

New Year

Nina Simone Eyes

Not Difficult Neither

Nothing Else for Me to Do (But Wait for Morning)

Nude

Old Man River

Overtime

Panhandler

Patience and I

Placebo

Plantation

Ready, Willing & Able

Rebirth of Beast

Reintroducing Myself

Roulette Wheel

Routine Stop

Rummage Sale

Run Slave, Just Run

Secular

Shockoe Bottom

Shut Up

Spell on You

Street Walker Loses His High

Strip Tease

Summer Cleaning

The Ancestors

The Great Depression

The Hook-Up

The Muses

The Plane Ride

The Tour Is Over

The Window

Tired of Walking

To The Lions

Tonight (Mood)

Universal God

Unwanted Stranger

With the Devil

Wolves of The Concrete Jungle

1971

I met her

Orleans Parish

Josephine Street

1971 while walking

Up the street headed

To the corner store

For a cold drink

Preparing to catch the bus

Cross the river to Algiers

Her name was Pearl Anne

Last name Glapion

I was taken aback by her hourglass

Shape and her dark skin

Which she cleaned gently

With Noxzema before bed

She became my everything

In that moment and thereafter

We were free to be us

Lovers of love

Gentle on our minds

Pearl Anne cooked and turned

The darkest moments to sunshine

We rode the trolleys up and down

Canal Street while cooling off

With cold cups we got for a nickel

Over at the sweet shop ran

By Miss Erma on Ursuline who usually

Sold the hot suppers on Friday’s

We loved each other

Every day was us together

Being one shadow

Living in one time

Moments were endless

Even as I stood over

Her grave as she no longer

Could fight the battles of illness

That lined her breast

I loved her still

My everything

Like the moment we first met

Orleans Parish

Josephine Street

1971

A Man In Danger

I have loved a lot of faces

And the love is all the same

I have raced in many races

But I never won a game

Never had a taste for honey

But vinegar is my thing

More in love with the money

Some say that it’s a shame

I’m a man in danger

But danger is funny

Living the way that I do

Just a man in danger

Danger of loving

I live with so much attitude

In silence I want to holler

I’ve been called a devilish man

Try to buy me with your dollar

Yet I’m back in escrow again

It’s just a valor of honor

I’m just a lover of pain

In hell I have a condo

Lucifer knows my name

I’m a man in danger

But danger is funny

Living the way that I do

Just a man in danger

Danger of loving

I live with so much attitude

A man in danger

Just call me quite cunning

Happy with just being blue

I’m a man in danger

But danger is funny

Living the way that I do

Just a man in danger

Danger of loving

I live with so much attitude

A Slave Story

Just like those lashings

My brother Solomon

Took for no reason at all

I am beat beyond

How much longer before I can dance on the

Heels of the north star

Solomon promised me that one day a better life

Would be for us both but he never made it

Took his own life one day

Out back behind the shed

Took Big Man’s riffle and let off one shot to his temple

Momma was numb and

I was scared to wonder if I was next because the lashings

Were worse than forever burning in hell

Lord knows I’m beat

Feeling old and withered

Wondering If there is a God

How could he let this be

How could he love them and not us

Momma and Solomon was all I had

Come one Sunday Momma didn’t wake up

Lola said she died in her sleep

That’s how come she knew Momma was an angel

She had the biggest smile on her face as she laid peacefully

I’m sure she was with Solomon now

Running peacefully and carrying a smile

As long as the Mississippi

Now the lashings are coming more frequent

Almost every time the sun rises

My skin just falls off my back

I’m pained

Can barely open my mind to believe

That there is a better life

Maybe the north start ain’t nothing but

A fairytale passed on down to my kind

Maybe Big Man and all his people planted

That seed in the ears of everyone that

Worked the fields just so that they can catch

One of us trying to chase an illusion one night

Momma and Solomon are gone

Lord I tell you

I may as well be gone too

A Slave’s Dream

I’m gonna run on away from here

Goodbye

I’m gonna live on with no fear

So long

I’m gonna follow the North Star

Until I can get along so far

Until strange