dios te bendiga "go with God"
don't wanna be no
organ grinder's monkey
I gather up my clothes
my dignity
quilt my own straightjacket
caminar por el cielo "walk the sky"
I ain't got no time left to borrow
and don't need no friend
I need an accomplice
don't know anymore
any less
broken and fearless
I row my boat to shore
escaping my Alcatraz
a homeless angel at Fifth and Roosevelt
"endings are necessary if they are not what dreams are made of"
so if you ain't gonna grab no shovel
and help me dig my own grave
push me in
or get out my way
Edward Murray is the author of Stranger's Pilgrimage. He is an artist working in silk-screening, a film-based photographer, and poet. Edward has been published in Dionne's Story, two anthologies of poetry and prose for the awareness of violence against women, as well as many other publications, including most recently, The Brentwood Anthology. He is a member, and past president, of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. Edward is also a member of the Photographic Section of The Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburgh, AgWorks, as well as a photographer contributor to Transformazium's log. His work can be seen on the cover of Vinyl Magazine, as well as many other publications, Jones Soda, and his work "Lost and Found" is included in The Art Lending Collection of The Braddock Carnegie Library and was featured at The University of Pittsburgh's International Housing Summit. He welcomes questions, comments, or exchanges of ideas by email: edleemu1@verizon.net.