Samba Fatal

He woke up between the magical and the mystical
the practical and the political
the prophetic and the poetic
the tragic and the eerie

Dawned between studying or keeping quiet
drinking or fighting
dreaming or speaking
singing or shouting

He thought about dying of fear
or saving his skin
or keeping a secret
or cutting his hair

He left saying goodbye
praying to God
thinking about his own
and did it for yours

Heroic or paranoid
historic or hysterical
suicide or murder
his act of death
was a fact of life