Lately I haven’t been blogging much. I suppose I have been too busy working, working out, and making changes in my life. All of these are good things. I am feeling confident, strong, and positive for the first time in ages. I am trying to ride the wave to the beach. Anyhoo.. Not to phone in a blog post but I came across one of my favorite poems. It sort of describes where I am right now. Powerful. Unstoppable. So here it is.

EGO TRIPPING

I was born in the Congo

I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx

I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows ever one hundred years galls into the center giving divine perfect light.

I sat on the throne drinking nectar with Allah

I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe

To cool my throat

My oldest daughter is Nefertiti

The rears from my birth pains created the Nile

I grazed on the forest and burned out the Sahara desert with a packet of goat’s meat

And change of clothes

I crossed it in two hours

I am a gazelle so swift

So swift you can’t catch me

For a birthday present when he was three

I gave my son Hannibal an elephant

He gave me Rome for mother’s day

My son Noah built new/ark and

 I stood proudly at the helm

As we sailed on a soft summer day

I turned myself into myself and was Jesus

Men intone my loving name

All praises all praises

I sowed diamonds in my back yard

My bowels deliver uranium

The fillings from my fingernails are semi precious jewels

On a trip north

I caught a cold and blew

My nose giving oil to the Arab world

I am so hip even my errors are correct

I sailed west to reach east and had to round off the earth as I went

The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid across three continents

I mean… I.. can fly

Like a bird in the sky

Nikki Giovanni

I think my favorite line in this poem is

“I am so hip even my errors are correct”

I identify with that. Completely.

FIN