It's Not Always What it Seems

About the Book

This book has real social value and should be read by anyone that may need a look back in order to see clearly forward. The lessons here are satiric lessons that spoof everything from homelessness to politics to religion; some will make you laugh, some will have you gasping for answers and still others will move you to action. Morris is an advocate for fairness and his writing often speaks of the persons not getting that fair shake such as in the poem Playing the Race Card. Morris writes in this poem that caries a loaded twisting ending good enough for any slueth story line; “Millions of his undeserving clan fell victim to hideous, loathsome, hateful hands. He’s now being denied a fair opportunity to moil so we’re letting our trusty race card do our toil.” Then on the other hand there’s poetry of the heart. Morris says “My eyes could be blinded and forever never see; but my life would be complete, because they have witnessed the essence of your wholesome beauty.” This book offers in 9 chapters something for everyone who reads and re-read its messages.

About the Author

Mark A. Morris Was born in Portsmouth, yet grew up in Norfolk VA. And attended Booker T. Washington High School yet due to an era of mandated busing he graduated from Granby High. He attended both Norfolk State University and the University of Maryland where he studied business and marketing. Morris served in the U.S. Army and after his discharge he embarked upon his business carrier in Restaurant Management. Along with a desire to write and a desire to maintain a huge since of humor, Morris enjoys international travel, collecting books and hiking through the Mountains of the Shenandoah National Park. This thoughtful collection of poems by Mark Morris offers a peek through the eyes of the writers’ social thoughts. The innovation of Bobby Jo that looks at the world through a seemingly uncomplicated life style takes us to a place where some of us long to get back to. Some of the situations presented by the writer let us glimpse the experiences of Katrina, and an era of opulence while others endured a widening poverty gap. This book has real social value and should be read by anyone that may need a look back in order to see clearly forward. The lessons here are satiric lessons that spoof everything from homelessness to politics to religion; some will make you laugh, some will have you gasping for answers and still others will move you to action.