J.D. Laws is a member of the new breed of contemporary writers on the verge of time. Just My Thoughts: Mind, Body and Soul presents varied aspects of the Black Experience in America by depicting the essence of reality without being simulated. Laws conveys her personal experiences through introspective poetry by reflecting her innermost feelings about the world and the everyday struggle - the growing pains of life. Bereft of idealistic fantasy and full of sidebar comments, Just My Thoughts is a sly book of intelligent poems filled with engaging lyric candor and original linguistic creativity sure to transcend the vernacular of pragmatic poetry in the 21st century.