One Lucky Guy

Growing up in Shelby county, Tennessee had many things a child could ever need;

when you’re born to a household, already fallen below poverty level financial standards some twenty years before the poppa-to-be ever planted his seed:

There was the overwhelming fact–Jamaican, Haitian-creole, Afro-“otherwise”, and plain ole Black–including this child, and his community had been to Satan’s front door and made it back…

to the westside of Memphis, where he took on many trades: observing the picture(already created), dissecting this charade, and putting things back together–so the oppressed might forget their sorrows, pay their debts with good cheer and good manners, despite the fact of being played.

Growing up in Shelby county, Tennessee had many things a boy might grow to hate; but he was born with a gift, and this made him very fortunate in all his days. And for that reason alone, the boy could wait.

Despite his second-rate education, and despite that his hair wasn’t blonde; despite his eyes were not blue, this young black man had a special type of charm. Despite his “over like” of sexual lust, and his lack of focus on legitimate financial stability; he was filled with good deeds to do for others, and filled up with “supernatural” capabilities.

As he roamed over America–searching for the place to plant his feet; as he hitched rides and learned the magical properties of ever soil, ever animal, and every tree. He lived on winnings from lottery scratch-offs and playing pick-fours or sometimes pick-three.

He did procure money and other “keys” of life from the queens of the night and even the Paul Bunyan’s in the daytime; but since he was THE LUCKIEST MAN ON EARTH he rarely had the need. So when he finally reached the California coast, he knew that the woman, he would meet, had been waiting for him too–she’d be a mean old thing, but he N she would turn out just fine.

After some years of “forsaking his gift,” the man from Memphis turned it back on; he and his beloved hit the lottery more than once, before they brought the THE BIG ONE home. No one ever knew why he was blessed to love and win and understand life quite like that; and I’ll never know why large amounts of money loved him this way…or for what reason on this green earth, that money would always fall right into his lap!