**This text was originally published as the introduction to Bivalent. The feedback I have received about it has been unanimous: readers believe that it illuminates the whole series, and they wish I had included it in the first book. I am not yet ready to print another edition of Amphibious, but I am posting these … Continue reading NOTES ON THE WORLD OF EVOLUTION OF CONTROL (Reprint)
Provocative
Lalala! Nobody’s Listening
We shout past each otherAnd yell, “Relativity!”, until I’m the one that’s rightSo, never mind. You do you. And I’ll do me.And people are dying in between.When it’s white folks, the flags fly at half-mastBlack bodies in the streets mean it’s just another dayYeah, I went thereBut lalala! Nobody’s listeningAnd that’s not allWe all like … Continue reading Lalala! Nobody’s Listening
Freedom Sizzling
Raw, exposedLike an egg out of its shellSPLAT! in the bottom of the panWith the truth searing my most sensitive parts,I sat. The inner dam of deception had sprung a leakAnd the words cascaded forth before my lips could hold them back.He took advantage of me. With 20/15 vision, I saw it all.How he had targeted … Continue reading Freedom Sizzling
A is for Arthur
He saved his own skin by donning deceptionIt was my word against his Man of God, they depend on you to tell the truth And I was left holding my head in my handsMy "father" doesn't love me anymoreBut "daddy", why don't you love me? So, which is it?Is it the ex-father figure or the … Continue reading A is for Arthur
From A Minority in the Fetal Position
I came into a world that, since day one, has threatened to end me, I am in a dark and silent place with the uneasy currents of polemical "tolerance" swishing about me. I am alive and I don't know why. I happened and there is no reversing it. But at times, though you and I … Continue reading From A Minority in the Fetal Position
Naomi M. Wong 