Don't Sleep: 100 Days features the incomparable Mendi Lewis Obadike

Don't Sleep y'all! I've been reporting all year about some of the amazing work the "100 days" project has been doing.

Today is no exception.

The outrageously talented and beautifully brilliant poet, artist, scholar, and superwoman Mendi Lewis Obadike is featured as Day #63.

Check her poem below, and take heed:

Parable of the Lucky Man

I once heard tell of a man who sailed to the heart
of the ocean. He went out all alone in a paper ship.
The gift was that those layers of wafer-thin sheets
carried him