Paloma: 10 years for cultivation

“When Mr. Palominos is done swabbing prison floors, around 2014, he will be given a one-way ticket back to poverty,” his defense attorney noted.

a dove waits for a patrol of whirling hawks to pass overhead,
from the nest he flies, north, to scratch in the dirt to find his chicks food,
helicopters weedwack his gray head feathers as he flies across the river.

his ground is burnt sienna, desert hard, cracked below, his feet,
the seed owner’s ground is Columbian, American Roast, a little caramel,
and didn’t know anything about doves watering hemp in Brazoria County:
“Where Texas began” from a county of doves.

Are these words drugs?

Are these drugs? If so I
Am an addict of these therapeutic phrases
that aid my ailings.
They hide the duty of confrontation
Behind the blanket of talking it out
Poetry is not the solution
Though part.
Discuss before confront.
I love the Truthsetter.
Please love me back.
I am weak.
Weaker than my words written.