tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6212951178496604822023-11-15T09:43:06.485-08:00Slow Wit PoetAnd a shitty blog to show itUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-60628765409454169832016-06-13T06:23:00.002-07:002016-06-14T10:38:01.813-07:0021st Century Dictionary<div>
<b>An excerpt from the definitive guide to 21st century language</b><br />
<b>presented for your immediate re-education -The Ministry of Truth<br /><br /><br />Bicycle</b>: <i>noun</i>, An armored mobile weapons platform designed</div>
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to resist small arms fire and penetrate hardened enemy fortifications.</div>
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<i>In a sentence</i>: Powered by a 1500hp Honeywell ATG1000 turbo-diesel powerplant, </div>
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some American M1 bicycle configurations can achieve freeway speeds.</div>
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<b>Hate</b>: <i>noun</i>, Great concern for the well-being of others.<br />
<i>In a sentence</i>: The man was so full of hate for his fellow men and women </div>
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that he imagined bright futures for even </div>
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the most downtrodden and vulnerable among them.</div>
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<b>Rhinoceros</b>: <i>noun</i>, A large territorial African mammal </div>
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known for its lumbering gait and extreme hunger<br />
<i>In a sentence</i>: The American children's game, </div>
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'Hungry Hungry Rhinoceros' was remarkably popular </div>
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through the late 80s and early 90s</div>
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<b>Wisdom</b>: <i>noun</i>, A suddenly present, intense, vengeful anger </div>
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conjured by the memory of adolescent experiences. <br />
<i>In a sentence</i>: Ever consumed with the past, displaying great wisdom,<br />
the man reflexively smeared a stranger bearing a familiar resemblance.</div>
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<b>Can-Opener</b>: <i>noun</i>, A complex machine designed to </div>
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puncture a mechanically sealed container.<br />
<i>In sentence</i>: Depending upon how a can was sealed,</div>
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one might choose from a variety of can-openers. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(I guess we still need those)</span></div>
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<b>Uranium</b>: <i>noun</i>, Elemental substance with 8 protons.<br />
<i>In a sentence</i>: A vast supply of uranium atoms bonded </div>
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in pairs provides fuel for the fundamental </div>
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chemical reactions that drive the development of life on earth.</div>
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<b>MoonShine</b>: <i>noun</i>, Naturally occurring molecule composed of <br />
two hydrogen atoms bonded to a single uranium atom.</div>
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<i>In a sentence:</i> It is recommended for humans to drink at least </div>
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8 full glasses of MoonShine each day, more if active.</div>
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<b>Reality</b>: <i>noun</i>, <u><i>archaic</i></u>, Largely discredited concept dealing </div>
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with the world or the state of things as they actually exist, </div>
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as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.<br />
<i>In a sentence</i>: On the screen, the reality of humans in space is </div>
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hidden behind countless hours of make up, screen-play rehearsal, special effects,<br />
and convincing dramatic performances. </div>
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<b>Racist</b>: <i>noun</i>, An extremely-white skin male<br />
<i>In a sentence</i>: The all-consumed self-loathing southern racist </div>
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came to view the color of even his own skin </div>
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as a source of profound anger, frustration, and guilt<br />
in his desperate quest for approval from others.</div>
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<strike><b> Rose</b>: <i>noun </i></strike>, The single immutable source of universal truth </div>
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firmly grounding our existence such that we can<br />
accurately determine most precisly</div>
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that a particular thorned, red-petaled flower </div>
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native to the Asian continent </div>
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is still that same thorned, red-petaled flower</div>
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native to the Asian continent</div>
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no matter what we call it.<br />
<i><strike>In a sentence</strike></i>: ---</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-20445542766514640862016-04-04T08:39:00.004-07:002016-04-05T15:33:06.841-07:00The Essence and Origin<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the days of old, times of legend</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And wicked evils takin' hold</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The people trampled underfoot, havin' had enough</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A shockwave of light from above!</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A gift to a land under the flood </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of sadness, tears, thunder n' blood</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Torrents of ash, screams, blood and gore</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spinnin' winds and blowin' storms</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Mothers in black as they mourn</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But from this wilderness a pure form was born </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to save the world, tattered, shattered and torn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">In that universe of free verse,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">tall tales and volumes of words from being hurt</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Endless days of Darkened skies</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and rivers of tears</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">year after year being cried</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Would you believe there</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was once a time</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when one might alliterate for a line</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And a little rhythm</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">would ring with rhyme</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, how there was</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">happiness in those</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">golden glory days of</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">smiles and sunshine!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Blowin' winds flowin' change</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chosen to be the form by </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">which man might be saved</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A just, simple man simply going about his day</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then a light from above</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and from above</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Down a gift of heaven came</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Chosen on that day, a man</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rick was his name</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Chosen by the winds blowin'</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to bring heat</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to the world's cold n' frozen</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rhyme was the gift</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To man named Rick</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So he could heal the rift</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Born to be the Essence</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And drive evil to the cliff!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br />A world now risin' from the dead</span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The fire risin' higher and higher</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">That began to spread</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It didn't take long</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From that day on and on</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whispers of the name became song</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rhythm and rhyme found melody and time</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the Era of the Essence had arrived.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">His kingdom was born</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the people worn </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">turned their head</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To see the light at the edge </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of the coldest night, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">wakin' from stones they called homes</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They could hear him say in his peculiar way,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">'Sleep here tonight, if you might, ok, alright'</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so Rick the Essence</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">found the peasants </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to become his Disciples and Knights</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">As his kingdom grew</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So many had come from so few</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And as their spirits flew</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The people would take reason each season</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To name him something new</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Born to be the Essence</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The peasants bowed</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with respect in his presence</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They called him Mr.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">then Dr.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">now Wizard</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He found the lost, bore the burden of their cost</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His spells cast away the frost a</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nd blizzard</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Turned to stone the store of vile snakes and lizards</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">The legend of his spells began to swell </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as he transmuted to golden eagles and hawks,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the muted macabre lovers and buzzards </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">otherwise confused, </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">always picking their own old wounds </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">goin' blind in sunless rooms</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">spinnin' tales of blood, doom and sinkin' moons</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">He brought light to the people</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And showed them the joy of life</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spreading his words and the craft</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Were his disciples and Knights</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Swings of their pens and their swords</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One and the same</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just dependin' on how </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you pick to fight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Rick the wizard</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">casting magic with his wand</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Castles to pigs and lizards</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a style of which we're all quite fond</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His spells spell concise</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Leavin' ya feelin' contrite</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Showing men they're mice</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While keeping it</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">short, sweet, and polite</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Knowin' he don't gotta be showin'</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His Thor-like power n' might</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While we're all already blinded by his light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">He's the master, he's the wizard</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Spell caster, rhyme blaster</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rockin' his wand, wavin' his finger</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Call him Dr., never mister</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A blistering pace, melting our face</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With wisdom, now listen</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You tiny peasant,</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whipped with penance</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">bow and thank ya God </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you were blessed </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with the presence of the Essence!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Hit your knees </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and reflect with repentance</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Get down and bow</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">before the man with the might of the world</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">dropped from a single sentence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">The light from above </span></span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that came to save us</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's Rick, the gift that god gave us</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To show us the way away </span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rom the grave of poetry bent</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to sadden then enslave us</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-51438849894716385412016-03-27T21:27:00.000-07:002016-03-30T12:04:21.169-07:00Rock Bottom Rhymin'<span style="color: white;">I'm just a rap rhymin' junkie</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Over the top, rock bottom</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">ramblin' flunkie rollin' money</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">wrappin' ones, snortin' twenties</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Chasin' my last line with another</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Racin' with a double shot of somethin' tougher</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">A bump n' grind lover</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Burn a line, blow another</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">An introspection injection</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Straight to the vein</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">lightin' ya up, easin' the pain</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">with an easy flow</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">a seedy come and go</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">a junkie ya all seen</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">but none'uh ya know</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Molly, lolli!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">She got me</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Grinding my teeth</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Rhymes in my mind when I sleep</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Tip of the key to my tongue</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">it's bitter but I'm young</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Lazers like glitter</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">got me comin' undone</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Alliterate to obliterate</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">End rhymes and slants</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Beaten with repeatin' consonance</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">An addiction that can't be beat</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Just a rhyme junkie gettin' high</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Thinkin' he bringin' heat</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Mad rants of a bum on the street</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Rocks ova' rum, and call'uh complete</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Can't name too many poetic devices</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Chasin' too many synthetic powder vices</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">It's been a rocky road</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Would I have started had I known?</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">My first hit and that was all,</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">That was it<br />Felt like '<a href="http://slowwitpoet.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-sand-below-my-feet.html">Sand Below My Feet</a>'</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">As I met defeat, a fire was lit</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">That was all, that was it</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><br />Now it's sparks and butane couplin' afternoon<br />With bubblin' spoons and risin' blood moons</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Trouble n' doom in spinnin' rooms<br />I just can't quit</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">These rhymes, I'm hooked on it</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Just gimme... one... last... hit...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Lovin' gunnin' wantin' more, gettin' less<br />Stumblin' tumblin' on the floor I'm a mess</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Rumblin' thumpin' this poor heart in my chest</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Huffin' Puffin' runnin' short on breath</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;">(thinkin', grinnin', that rhymes with meth)</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;">Fumblin' crumplin' Evermore, Angel of Death?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Nah, just another rhyme junkie</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">pressin' his luck to the test</span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Now, bow </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">ya head and pay </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;">some respect to the wretch</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Say it slow:</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">May his soul pay the toll and be ever blessed</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">And may his rhymes take control of ya soul</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">and see that ya never rest</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">when ya pen and paper</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Get together to do the press</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Amen, God bless</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-17010415587792798872016-03-26T07:33:00.000-07:002016-03-26T07:33:00.514-07:00Babe Bartender<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Californ' at Warren and High</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Clouds marchin, blue sky </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">makin' ya wish ya could fly</span><div>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Stoppin in, stopping by </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Plaid, Vans'n Cap'n on my mind 😉</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Tacos too! Days like dreams</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Fireball with Duvall on the screens</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">It's perfection it seems!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Heaven's here</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Or Hell is the place to be!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Three feet of concrete</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">'tween you and me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">But from where I sit, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Girl, I like what I see!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Life flowing, lights glowin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">No where to be goin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Takin' time'n rhymin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">With a little buzz that's climbin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Maybe by now you're blushin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">But I'm just havin' fun n'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Comin' up with things to say</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">'Fore I close the tab</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">And get goin' on my way</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Squeezing limes n' scribblin' lines, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">neon signs of the times</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Steel guitars and barnwood pines</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Got me feelin' better than fine </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Señoritas pourin' margaritas</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Sippin', Tippin, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Trippin' slippin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">I keep askin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">'Man, what's she drinkin'?'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">I must be trippin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">But really I'm just playin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Never knowin' what I'm really saying!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Just teasin' and cheesin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">On a day made for seize'n!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-88999228370832467532016-03-25T12:29:00.000-07:002016-03-28T10:16:17.374-07:00Ages 18 to 29<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 17px;">A War for the ages </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Ages 18-29 that is</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Boys turned to men</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">And men turned to bodies</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Bodies turned to heroes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">No names, just 1s, and lots of zeroes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Youth and life </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">come and gone</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">21 guns and their song</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Storms from the north</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Bringing Winter winds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Guns of August fire </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">through November</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">And you people won't remember</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Ya promise once more to never forget</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">But another war is all we ever get </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">Chew 'em up, spit 'em out</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">Grind 'em to grit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">Take the fruit, leave the pit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">Brined and dead inside</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">When ya hear that battle cry </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">Look through t</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">he propaganda pride</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">And call 'em out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: #f3f3f3;">Call 'em out where they lied</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Honor the fallen, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">forget why they fell</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Big Sam callin' 'em up</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Sending his boys straight to hell</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Missin' his legs, but, my neighbor's "doin well"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Fighting war for ages</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Tombstones and unwritten pages</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Jaws ripped off their faces</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Blood dripped, tracing panicked paces</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Living with scars nothin' erases.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Soldiers mistreated and abused</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Fooled by "duty" and </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">the entertainment we call news</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Fighting for a win</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">When the plan is to lose</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Tempt 'em with loot</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Got em signin' without a clue</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Teach 'em to shoot at what they see on the late night news</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Now hear 'em sing the empty boot blues.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">We call them heroes and </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">pretend the fight is for freedom</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">But never stop to ask</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">What's with all these wars?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Do we really need 'em?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Once again it's time</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">To remember the fallen</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Ghosts of Tonkin' still callin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Hidin' Ghadaffi's coffin, stallin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Horrors still hauntin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">It's a web we're caught in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Countin' the wars our</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Boys've fought in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">And for all our fightin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">All their writhin' dyin'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Its only claps and closed traps</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">The support we're supplyin'</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-81437082389073628202016-03-21T21:25:00.001-07:002016-03-23T13:36:47.665-07:00WOAR<span style="font-size: small;">Whatta we got when we look around? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The sky a color like the ground?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Rumble and crack the sound?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A whisper when allowed?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A funny lookin' cloud?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Men marchin' proud?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A bomb in a crowd?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">History plowed?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">When it's gone,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Will we say? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What now?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What more?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">MORE!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">It's the war for more</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Folded flags knockin at the door</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Movin money to the rich from the poor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Tune in at 11 for more</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">plus the Buckeye's score!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">with just a dash of blood, and a little gore</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">writers dreams to ya tv screens</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">it's the war for more, now in HD</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">with stars fit to lead!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">In the jungle heat, bare feet</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">trampled and beat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">looking from the street</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">To concrete castles risin' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">On the backs of slaves and vassals</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">as peaks on the horizon</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Towers to a God who never speaks</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For our climbin' all we do </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Is fancy fightin' n dyin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Longin' for the lives we keep denyin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Corrupt and covered in rust</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Bridge collapse, perhaps </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Lead in the water pumpin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">from the hoop-jumpin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">people ya trust </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And if the bombs don't boom</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The economy goin' bust </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Metal birds criss cross skyin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Last thing you'd think'd be flyin</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ordinance drop got </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">foreign mothers cryin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Barack, Carter and bunch'uh lyin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">2016 and we see the machine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Hummin' n runnin' clean</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Grease the gears, grind the meat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The devil bent to level</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The people on every </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">corner and street</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mission accomplished, Boy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Never complete </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Some say </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">we should've stayed </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Truth is we never left</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Syria, Iraq,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Gulf to Gulf, we're going back</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Billions for bombs and flak</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Arming both sides and sittin' back</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Watchin' em go tit for tat </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">While the people live with rats</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The board room claps </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">with a smile and laugh </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">seeing revenue right on track</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Almighty Economy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Baby she's coming back!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">And so what if millions </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">burn in the desert heat</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Under the rumble and crack</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Shells fallin' and bodies burned black</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It just the woar for moar</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Putting the pedal to the floor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">White wash the blood, cover the gore</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Paint the people as tribal and poor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Savage and nothin' more </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Dollar signs on the mind</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And broadcast designs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Learn your party lines!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We're The Good Guys This Time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Red and Blue, policy aligned</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Shits burnin', creakin', and collapsing</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">While you reading lies, and yappin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Blowin' powder and dancin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Is there a chance'n</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Hell they'll sell</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Something you won't buy?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A time you'll refuse</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">To work til ya die?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Slaves built the pyramids</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But you put concrete in the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Grinding ya feet til ya die</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Working for a guy</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Who's gonna water the desert </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Til your well runs dry</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">You never gonna stop to ask why?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">You ain't gonna tread the flood</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Got ya head buried in the mud</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">TV left ya brain dead,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Hardly pumpin' blood</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It's a popular club </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Just kick back, unwind</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Tune into ya favorite drug</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Drones and satellite trackin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">White guys on stage rappin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">More frackin' fresh water jackin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And gas clouds even</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Got the white folk cough'n'hackin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Ghost cities and more concrete stackin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mountain tops missin' and green rivers blackn'd</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And I gotta know </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">How the fuck did it all happen?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Maybe no one gives a fuck</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And its all just Trump, Clinton, and clappin'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">while on goes one more war for more after another</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Isis in Toyotas and Hummers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Sam's flags in the hands of their gunners </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Trade war under the floor, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">oil down and investors out the door</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Schemes of banker dreams tearing apart at the seams</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And ya running from </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the screams to the screens </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">you plug in and ask for more!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A facade protecting you from Ahmad</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">While our boys settle the score.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And ya job lands off shore </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Somewhere North of Singapore </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">It doesn't make sense!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This ignorance!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It ain't bliss, you're pissed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But you're criss crossed</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">At a loss for what to do</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Or who to trust</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Worn by war, boom, and bust</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">You gonna stand up, say enough?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Or follow the crowd to the cliff,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">bend, break, and be crushed?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Man, why you keep lookin' at that TV</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">For someone to trust?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-71438853308977994652016-03-16T21:03:00.003-07:002016-03-16T21:04:55.182-07:00Cast About<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_56ea2b48d31488464516254">
Vote! Vote!<br />
Get out and be heard!<br />
Answer your duty<br />Democracy and Freedom the word!<br />
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It's an Election Day!<br />
Yeah, cast the ballot, pick the name<br />
Trump, Cruz, Goldman<br />
They all the same<br />
Talking change and stealing Bens'<br />
Split tongues calling you <br />
Neighbors and friends<br />
And you jumping through the hoop again, <br />
and again, and again <br />
<br />
2016 and ya seem lost in a dream<br />
Forgetting all the years before and between<br />
All the war, destruction and screams<br />
Whatever, just check the score of ya favorite team<br />
<br />
Blue and red, tattered, rippin' and slippin' at the seams <br />
Buzzwords fillin' ya mind light speed from ya TV screens <br />
The TV stars, they beg and plead <br />
Vote for me! Vote for me!<br />
And you, what's a monkey do <br />
When he sees?<br />
<br />
Get out and vote! Rubber stamp it<br />
Be a good dog and finance it!<br />
Don't bother thinking <br />
about power and who has it<br />
Just live ya life, stuck in traffic<br />
While the would burns <br />
With greed to collapse it<br />
<br />
Collapse!? Nah<br />
Thunderous applause and claps <br />
For the corps and their corpse<br />
Up on stage reading from the page<br />
Telling your ears the fears they wanna hear<br />
Hopin' your eyes don't come to realize<br />
he's a zombie in disguise<br />
<br />
Words like cigarette lies<br />
Got ya asking 'how high?'<br />
And ya vote he didn't even have to buy<br />
<br />
Go vote, it ain't mirrors and smoke<br />
Really, this time it makes a difference<br />
Things'll change<br />
The innocent will shed their chains<br />
Wars will die, and fail to rage<br />
It'll all be history as we turn the page<br />
After November, if you get it right, it'll be endless, happy days<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Or at least that's what the script says)</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-58576607467417822122016-03-16T20:14:00.001-07:002016-03-16T20:29:44.850-07:00Open Mic Night Again<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: white; font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Scott's back this week</span><br />
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And tonight I gotta gang with me</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Katie's got courage, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">but Kirby ain't so brave </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Writing long form, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">he doesn't wanna bore</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Open mic on stage, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">but he's holding the floor</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Dj with the sound</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">In the breaks, breakin' down </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Poets with a little buzz </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Audio at open mic </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">good as it ever was</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Full house tonight</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Been waiting all week to see what</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">These poets gonna write</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Lines wrapped up tight</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And darkness of hearts strugglin' to find the light</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Nothing like TV</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Open mic life's better </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">than that reality</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Who's new tonight?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">First question:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Do ya write?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Anna's here for the ride</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Cheyenne bringin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">A little muscle, a little might</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Wouldn't trade her girl for the world</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's friendship for life</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Into the wilderness</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Scott rockn rollin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">With a riff n a diss</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">John aiming for Scott's pearls</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">(The boys, not the girls)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">(Droppin' a plug for laughter like a drug ya shouldn't miss)</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Finally It's time to call</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">A poet from the list!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Ariel won't put up with this</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Get JG going, he's a master</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">With own show'n he's showin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">The truth clear and glowin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Stackin' bricks to the book he's </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Growin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Keeping the pace</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Pleading her case to check out</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Kitamu for the coffee </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">and a fresh new sound</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And an effort more profound</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">March against the flow</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">To help the woman in our city</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Who struggle in the street light glow</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Another book, at $15</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">You gotta get a look. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Denial is strong, it's powerful</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Let it free, let it fly!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">No! Fuck you! Get lost, guy!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Say it like you mean it</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Cause ya do!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And ain't no body need</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">To be fuckin' with you</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's all about NO!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Through and through</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Wing man flying high</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Nathan bringing the heat</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Talking crime and cops on the beat</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Searching for a friend in need</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Writing from a hole in his heart </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">That's feelin' deep. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Ghosts in his heart, in his mind</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Now living before his sight</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Spectre's in the skyline</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Hopin' n copin' </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Page by page, line by line </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Moving through, moving fast</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Jeff with a J lighting fires</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">While Amber's new to cast </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Laughing tonight, she's having a blast</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Earning credit for class, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Can't remember her last poem</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She ain't reading, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">On safari, listenin' and seein'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She got Jacob in poetry bondage</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Haiku' and sonnet's </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">A flair for the fabulous, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">yeah he's got it </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's time for sacrifice!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Virgin to the flames!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Kai bringing fire no one can tame </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Off the cuff, tremblin' just enough</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Yes and No, she meant 'fo sho'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's a rocky road to the mic</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Reading blind, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">confessin', professin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Gotta song inside, needing</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Eyes to give her heart a look. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">None of us really knowing the courage the poem took </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Gun show in red</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Got 'em moist n wet </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's heavy and yet</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's got a smooth flow</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Quick and easy</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Come and go</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">We wipe the sweat</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And it's on with the show</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Katie's time is here</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Shakin' with anticipation</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Forgetting her fear</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Fuck that, she's ready</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Did ya hear what she read?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She's more than just a sandwich on Brian bread </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She's on loop with the rhymes</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Talking about her life and times</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Broken hearts, and long good byes</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Love is gone, but she's hooked on the grind </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Words on her page saying good bye</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And tonight, readin' with</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">no shimmer in her eye</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Naps and soup from the one man troupe</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Let's not drink piss, he's got something with a stronger proof</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's heavy but it's light</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">We're hearing a tale of a fight</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And seeing comedy swing all its might </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Jazmine our queen!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Bringing things we haven't seen</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Pain and fire, surreal, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">real like a movie scene</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Righteous farewell to a match </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">I can tell it's the hearts </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And sirens I hear scream</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">A murder scene</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Nightmares replacing dreams</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Louise at ease</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">With a story of fire</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And the fire of passion as she reads</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">The birds and her words alight</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She's got the room thinkin' twice</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She's lion reading to the mice </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Mom! I need a rhyme!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Just teasing, Levi, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">having a good time!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Love for his girl, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">better than any pearl</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Finger clicks and he rips. </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Tears in his eyes, claps for love</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Overflowing there's never enough</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Rhymes from the heart</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">To get his start</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">He's got us all fallin' apart</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Loraine tearing 'em down</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Got the mic poppin' with her sound</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">She sees through the veneer</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Her words got it right and clear</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">He's the master, he's the wizard</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Call him Dr. never mister</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">A blistering pace, melting our face </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">With wisdom</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">You tiny peasant, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">bow and thank ya God you were blessed with the presence of the Essence</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Folks, it's Rick always with</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Might on the mic</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Blink and you'll miss your life's</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Most beautiful sight!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">A battle for the ages</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">JG and Jeff burning it down</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">With words I don't know</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Just google that shit later </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Let's go with the poem</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Off with his head</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">As they grip the microphone</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">JG and Jeff</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">At the top standin' alone </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Sorry if I missed a beat</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">If I didn't rhyme a line </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">About ya fire and heat</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">But this got long, I got in deep</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">But you know it, we the poets</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Running the corners, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">both sides of street</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Tonight It's been heavy and light</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">But the streets are quite and dark</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">I guess this is time for the sad part</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">8-10</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And we've been at it again</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Open mic with the gang</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Scott, Louise, Vernell</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">They throw a show with a bang</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Rick and his rhymes, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">he's our main man</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">As we rock n roll</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Typin our poems on our phones </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And feel the shake in our hands</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Reading from the heart</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">It's a crazy ride from finish to start</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Never knowing where we'll go</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">When we embark</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Whenever ya need a fire</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">There's always room in the cast</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">For another part </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">And Wednesday night</span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Open mic </span></div>
<div style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody";">
<span style="color: white;">Always got ya spark</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-18368228590328108122016-02-25T21:13:00.001-08:002016-02-26T07:18:39.194-08:00Twin Piston Vision<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); color: white; font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Let's do drugs all night</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">And die riding a motorcycle</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">It'll feel alright making the most of life</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">One last ride, </span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">your heart chasing mine </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">and mine pushing redline </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">One past nine, our lives in hand</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">twins on the power band</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">You're grippin', clutch slippin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Two wheels spinnin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Two hearts swimmin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Dashes blur to lines as</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">We come alive for one last ride</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Hands on my hips</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Fingers at my thighs</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Revs, speed, and lucid highs</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Lights of the night flashing by</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">A first time feelin', angel and demon</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Comin' at last, riding this evenin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Wind in my face,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">my heart keeping pace</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">In my head, new things I'm believin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Lady I think you've got me dreaming</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">And I can't tell </span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">if it's the two wheelin' engine rumblin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Or my chest thumpin', </span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">what is this feelin? </span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Is that the sunrise I'm seein'?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Rub my eyes n' roll on ridin'</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">To see a new day at the horizon</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">So I was lying about dying</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">It keeps my senses heightn'd</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">But what a night that was</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Girl, I think it mighta been you,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">the drug givin' me my buzz</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">What a dream it was</span></div>
<div style="font-family: uictfonttextstylebody;">
<span style="color: white;">Of rumblin' love</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-41800048454389110842014-09-25T06:51:00.001-07:002014-09-25T06:51:34.960-07:00Why Wait?<div>Who pulls ya strings?</div><div>Fillin' ya life empty with things</div><div>Masters of ya fear</div><div>Days becoming years</div><div>Got their hooks in ya belly</div><div>And their thoughts in ya ears</div><div><br></div><div>There's puppeteers, engineers</div><div>Performers, producers, </div><div>666 seducers, </div><div>but boy, you just a consumer, </div><div>a daily grinder, </div><div>a back n' forth zoomer</div><div>Clean suit, clean cut, just a little gut</div><div>But don't stumble, keep the pace</div><div>Welcome to the dollar shave rat race </div><div><br></div><div>White lies and your eyes on the prize</div><div>Cast away from darkening skies</div><div>Days become years </div><div>And years flying by</div><div>Who's gotcha mind?</div><div>No worries, we got ya favorite show,</div><div>on at its regular time</div><div><br></div><div>Nightmares invading our dreams</div><div>While we live ignoring the schemes</div><div>plain to see,</div><div>You don't know, but you feel what I mean. </div><div>Pouring our blood, hopin' red becomes green </div><div>pretending it's our hunger, not our greed. </div><div><br></div><div>Wake! Don't wait and see!</div><div>One, two, three, You! stand up next to me!</div><div>Times are changing and the moment is here: fear or struggle, what's it gonna be?</div><div><br></div><div>Grip the mic, </div><div>wit poetry takin' flight</div><div>Ink the page! Write!</div><div>Let ya pen spark the light</div><div>Cut the strings, spread the flame, </div><div>Stand up as rebels to tame</div><div>and call 'em out,</div><div>Call 'em out by their names</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-13548479417158620192014-05-02T13:42:00.001-07:002014-05-09T15:17:15.883-07:00Times, Byes, and Lights in Your Eyes<div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time passing slow, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">time speeding past</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's funny how no single moment </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ever seems to last </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The sweetest slip by fast</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Even the slowest skip right on past</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We wake and begin </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">counting down to our final breath, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">from the first moment, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">less time is all we have left</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Though through the years we gain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">as we grow and share with others </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">human joy and pain,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bask in the sun, dance in the rain</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the fact remains </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">that from birth to death, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">less time is all we really have left</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hour hand signing a late night rhyming</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> with time ticking, and my ticker timing</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"What is life without time?"</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is the thought filling my mind </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Electrons bouncing from ear to ear, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">side to side, time slipping by</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These forces we can't describe</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gravity pullin' our hearts open wide</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Time rollin' on from our start </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Takin' us to the other side as we depart</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Without time, could we live and never die?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Without time, could we ever feel alive? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-6256645963165172452014-03-08T14:49:00.001-08:002014-03-08T14:52:15.246-08:00Ones, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Hundreds of Thousands, Millions, Billions, Trillions, ZeroA million millionaires<br />
Feeding the world to their heirs<br />
Livin' on the dividends<br />
Never breathin' that thick foreign air<br />
<br />
Endless wealth creation<br />
Borne of man's machinations<br />
Capitalization and contamination<br />
Floodin' the market to the point of saturation<br />
<br />
Find salvation in reasonable rationalization<br />
Never mind the collapse and catastrophe<br />
The radiation pumpin' to the sea<br />
People gotta be free to destroy all that we see<br />
in the name of the Almighty Economy!<br />
Hear the call of that 21st century Manifest Destiny<br />
<br />
May we be blessed as we bend and stress<br />
Even when we break may we never rest<br />
Day and night, burning fires to fill our desires<br />
It's the Almighty Economy callin'<br />
To our hearts dead in our chests<br />
And at the end of the day,<br />
May a bank account test our success<br />
And may our sins never be confessed<br />
<br />
Never a need to arrest the flow<br />
Growth being sown<br />
The order of the day:<br />
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, <br />
They proclaim behind the podium up on that stage<br />
The sales pitch is always the same<br />
VOTE for CHANGE!<br />
<br />
Capitalism is the way<br />
Just get with it, play the game<br />
God is green and He wouldn't have it any other way<br />
Opportunity and happiness await!<br />
You're livin' in the golden age!<br />
<br />
Labor arbitrage hidden behind the mirage<br />
Of prosperity, sea to shining sea<br />
the products of free trade being built<br />
by an army of wage slaves<br />
Brothers in chains<br />
Hidden, forgotten, and barely paid<br />
<br />
Back home, just close your eyes<br />
and let reality fade<br />
Live the boom, forget the bust<br />
Let your soul go corrupt and rust<br />
Feed your passion, fulfill ya lust<br />
The world is all for you<br />
And you leave none for us<br />
<br />
Get what you can,<br />
Want what you can't<br />
Give in when ya brain is<br />
Tellin' you to pursue<br />
All you can consume<br />
Chasin' the dream all the time, all at once<br />
It's never ending, there's never enough<br />
<br />
And when we turn the page<br />
When we see the poison underground<br />
and the venom flowin' through our veins<br />
Will we tremble knowin' we've got numbered days?<br />
Will we turn to our brothers, the slaves?<br />
Will we look to the Almighty Economy<br />
and pray that it saves?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-68473066053216375562014-01-11T19:11:00.001-08:002014-01-13T14:23:11.605-08:00Deck Hands and Chairs for the Band<div>
There's pain and despair</div>
<div>
Rain falls and clouds fill the air </div>
<div>
Fire flames and wars rage</div>
<div>
Rats gettin' fat trapped in their cage</div>
<div>
Living without a care </div>
<div>
like the world isn't ours to share. </div>
<div>
History repeating, page after page. </div>
<div>
It's time to open your eyes if ya dare</div>
<div>
Time to face the nightmare</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Or bury your head, say instead </div>
<div>
"Others troubles aren't ours to bear..." </div>
<div>
Stop, stare, then when ya see </div>
<div>
the darkness closin' in from everywhere</div>
<div>
pull an about-face on the nightmare</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Return to ya bubble</div>
<div>
Forget the toil, turmoil,</div>
<div>
the bodies buried </div>
<div>
And smokin' rubble</div>
<div>
Double down on life </div>
<div>
without a trouble or care</div>
<div>
Bury your head anywhere!</div>
<div>
Keep flipping through ad books named</div>
<div>
Cosmo, People, and Vanity Fair</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Things fallin' apart </div>
<div>
while we grind out senseless music</div>
<div>
Pretending it's art</div>
<div>
Poppin pills to "lose it!"</div>
<div>
Life's tough, but Molly'll soothe it</div>
<div>
Jaws clenchin' when ya use it</div>
<div>
500mg of Mg oughta loosen it</div>
<div>
After she gets ya mind </div>
<div>
to grind with the music </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Auctions for pointless art</div>
<div>
Insanity and vanity off the chart</div>
<div>
The status elite doesn't come cheap</div>
<div>
Wealthy sheep celebrating </div>
<div>
the ordinarily temporary contemporary </div>
<div>
Embarrassingly exemplary </div>
<div>
Of logic and reason's scarcity</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Millions for a painting </div>
<div>
While millions die waiting </div>
<div>
Caught in wars raging over</div>
<div>
Finance and trading</div>
<div>
The world needs saving</div>
<div>
And it's humans I'm blaming</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
We're reading words without meaning<br />
and it's got the masses teeming for more</div>
<div>
Another Hollywood war </div>
<div>
knocking at the door</div>
<div>
The next feud, the next fight</div>
<div>
All keeping reality far from sight</div>
<div>
Something's wrong, </div>
<div>
but it's got us feeling right</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Distraction in action as we listen to the voice of a generation<br />
who's got nothing to say. </div>
<div>
Applying "genius" to money and fame<br />
showin that fool and genius can mean the same</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Feuds and disputes staged on stage</div>
<div>
Actors and feigned rage<br />
just selling ads on the entertainment page</div>
<div>
Grabbing all they can before the fame fades<br />
and empty accolades<br />
are replaced by empty days. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
The masses in a maze<br />
driven to a daze<br />
by flashing lights and variations on the same<br />
that never fail to amaze. </div>
<div>
Craze after craze<br />
dancing to the same songs that we've always played. </div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
In time there comes a day</div>
<div>
When the piper says it's time to pay</div>
<div>
And what will we say </div>
<div>
When we've got pockets empty</div>
<div>
With no change in the tray?</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
It's not that ya always </div>
<div>
gotta have something to say</div>
<div>
And there's nothing wrong </div>
<div>
with playing just to play</div>
<div>
But we're neck deep</div>
<div>
In the mass of trash </div>
<div>
Always adding to the heap</div>
<div>
Piling higher and higher, day after day</div>
<div>
Just to collect from the millions willing<br />
to pay for the rehash of noise and scrap from yesterday</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
And it seems as if today, </div>
<div>
While the ship tips and sinks</div>
<div>
Nobody blinks or thinks</div>
<div>
of a single thing to say</div>
<div>
To the band and deck hands as they</div>
<div>
continue to work and play. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-15369605823135457792013-11-11T16:52:00.000-08:002013-11-11T19:04:25.852-08:00If We Would Remember <b>Country song on radio playin'</b><br />
<i>" Freedom isn't free and it's war that keeps on payin'! "</i><br />
<br />
<i><b>Da fuq is the machine sayin?</b></i><br />
___________________________________<br />
<br />
We remember the fallen and forget why they fell<br />
American eyes mesmerized by the red and white of the body blue as it lies <br />
with 21 guns pointin' to the skies<br />
Firin' drowning a mother's cries<br />
The tears well and our ego swells<br />
to 21 guns and a funeral bell<br />
<br />
Honor the vets and forget why they went<br />
Don't question the war or what it was for<br />
Just call it freedom's check for the rent <br />
Nevermind the blood bein' spent<br />
All vets go to Heaven, don't forget<br />
<br />
Get 'em while they're young<br />
and they'll attract to ya <br />
Sights and sounds comin' atchya' <br />
Promises and propaganda<br />
Enthrallin' the young hearin' that duty callin' <br />
"Get the training for the slayin' and maimin'<br />
to rise above your generation!<br />
You'll be home once the war ain't ragin',<br />
just sign the line on the page....<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> 'n' there'll be no escapin' "</span><br />
<br />
From Gulf to Gulf we've been at it again and again<br />
Spirits of the fallen forgotten still hauntin' <br />
Nailin' Saddam's coffin, Chasin' the ghosts of Tonkin <br />
Ya see the web of lies we're caught in?<br />
Engulfed in the flames of the past<br />
that never quit ragin'<br />
Change the names of the cast,<br />
there's always an enemy to be engagin'<br />
<br />
Winnin' freedom from wars we didn't win<br />
Rewind and play it again<br />
Keep the sheep enlistin' just change the mission<br />
Buy that youthful ambition with omission<br />
and keep the gears spinnin' <br />
"We're America, We're made for winnin'!"<br />
<br />
20 vets a day choosin' to end the pain their own way<br />
Not fallen, but forgotten by empty promises<br />
and training that didn't translate to the offices<br />
Often left on the corner with needs they can't meet<br />
The tragedy comin' complete<br />
with over seas defeat<br />
and suicide over livin' on the street<br />
<br />
On and on it drags, as we ready the next attack<br />
Brother's and sons buried one by one,<br />
each with his story to tell<br />
Jungles and deserts, the sights and smells<br />
All turned to a mortal's portal to Hell<br />
This Veteran's day, ignore the source<br />
of the flag wrapped body bags<br />
Just salute and ring the bell <br />
Remember the fallen,<br />
Forget why they fell <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-71961072478814067222013-11-08T16:16:00.001-08:002013-11-08T17:07:02.879-08:00Privacy Catastrophe for All the World to See!<i><b>Stretching my legs after a short break! Thanks for reading!</b></i><br />
<br />
Livin' by a policy of self assurance insurance <br />
Day after day its rationalized reassurance<br />
<br />
"What I made is mine!"<br />
<br />
Pathetic and blundering is another way to term it<br />
Your rants confirm it, as I watch ya flip, flop, and pivot<br />
What an effort you give it!<br />
Swallowing the blue one to relieve the pressure of reality <br />
bearin' down on your fantasy<br />
Just close your eyes and your mind<br />
Keep livin' deaf, dumb, and blind<br />
<br />
It's just fine that you're the best at what you do<br />
but sometime you gotta stop and think of those you're doing it to<br />
The choices you make might take years to unfold <br />
And by then you'll be grey, wrinkled, fat, and old<br />
While those who's story ya told have to deal in a world just as real <br />
with a future where their past was published and sold<br />
<br />
What ya do will never be right<br />
When ya violating individual rights<br />
no matter how much ya rant, argue, and fight<br />
But I've got this creepin' feelin' that<br />
your receiver ain't detectin' the message I'm sendin'<br />
But if ya catch its echo in ya reflection<br />
little introspection is my suggestion to you<br />
But the signals in these syllables ain't goin' through<br />
'cause you're totally the best at what you do<br />
How could someone have insight clearer than you?<br />
<br />
Hell unleashed, hell breaking loose<br />
The resonance of dissonance<br />
ringing in ya mind, enamel gears on the grind<br />
as ya read these words and find<br />
The fantasy you're livin' is on the line<br />
As ya keep runnin' from passin' time<br />
<br />
Talking about responsibility, just look how "grown up" you seem <br />
Then assuming none for the consequences yet to be seen<br />
Remember pictures from before you were a teen?<br />
How you'd scream when your mom would show someone<br />
that picture from your first Halloween?<br />
But here ya are, never thinking about the damage done to the young <br />
with actions that can't be undone <br />
'cause your 24/7 priority is actually #1<br />
<br />
Digital affection and attention are the fix<br />
The high comes quick but it never sticks<br />
The feelings fade as ya spin the disk<br />
Blundering comments and revealing pics<br />
Day in day out never stoppin' to think<br />
"Who might see that? Who might read this?"<br />
Or answering to "Where was your daughter last seen?" <br />
In the aftermath of an abductor's scheme<br />
<br />
You gotta wake from your dream<br />
But instead ya attempt to defend<br />
But in the end ya remain ever aged <br />
wishing to bathe in ya faded fame<br />
Treating you and yours like one and the same<br />
All in the name of fleeting affection,<br />
love and attention in the digital age<br />
Failing to perceive the building collection of parental misdirection<br />
line after line, page after page all open to public inspection<br />
You'll deserve all you receieve, all the disgust and inattention<br />
when you learn the meaning of adolescent rage and teenage rejectionUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-39191231460392544462013-06-14T13:13:00.000-07:002013-06-14T13:17:12.073-07:00New Age, High TimeI think it <br />
When I see it<br />
So I write it<br />
I can't fight it<br />
So I let it flow<br />
But ya know I can't sing it<br />
So I just grip the Mic and bring it<br />
Go ahead make a thing of it<br />
Call me a poet, full of shit<br />
Fighting with a slow wit<br />
Tearing ya world apart bit by bit<br />
<br />
The world's gonna spin<br />
And the sun is gonna shine<br />
Gravity pulls and on rolls our measure of time<br />
Mine were the days behind<br />
And the future is yours<br />
Though I'll keep living through my words<br />
Hittin ya verse after verse<br />
Line by line <br />
Even when my soul's<br />
Whisperin' among the pines<br />
<br />
<br />
Things I've written of the things I've seen<br />
A mix of fantasy, reality<br />
Nightmares and dreams<br />
I'm gonna live forever<br />
By writing pictures of<br />
The world as it seems<br />
Digging to bury my enemies<br />
By applyin' a slow wit to their schemes<br />
<br />
I've got a name<br />
But it doesn't matter<br />
I'd rather ya remember the lines<br />
Than covet anything that once was mine<br />
Let the lines fill ya mind<br />
And you'll find in time<br />
That this call was ya sign<br />
<br />
In this age of cyber war machines patrolling eastern mineral seams<br />
Pilotless planes takin out Americans with Un-American names<br />
And politicians paid to fund spies and their games<br />
I'm droppin' bombs with my pen and off the list I'll be checkin' names<br />
Zack pulled the cards, but a generation later, the picture's the same<br />
And I'm standing up as the next rebel to tame<br />
<br />
So if you're feeling the same<br />
It's time to mobilize and unify<br />
but the street ain't what we gotta occupy<br />
No, we gotta occupy our mind<br />
And let the ideas flow<br />
See movements come<br />
And movements go<br />
People change<br />
And people grow<br />
But ideas,<br />
Ideas are forever, ya know?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-74336963465464185082013-05-19T10:48:00.002-07:002013-07-28T06:37:30.336-07:00National Security is a Nice Way of Saying Personal Interest<p>Hurry, plug the dike, block the site<br>
When the truth is Oscar Mike<br>
Sam's gotta move quick to stop the leak<br>
Makin' an example of 'em week after week<br>
Lettin' 'em know, Sam ain't gonna turn the other cheek</p>
<p>When the whistle blows<br>
And the light shines on the havok they wreak<br>
Sam can't be caught lookin' weak<br>
And he figures that<br>
Every now and then<br>
Justice deserves just a little peek.</p>
<p>He'll pillage and plunder under the cover of the law<br>
While Freedom takes a rock to the jaw<br>
Uncle Sam cuttin' her down<br>
with his daggers and claws<br>
But he don't worry<br>
Because the citizens too distracted to stop and give pause<br>
They'll stop and wonder, "Who enacted those laws?"<br>
'Cause there never lookin' up from the screen to see the source of the scream<br>
Never seein' what they should've saw<br>
Buyin' tickets to hear the siren's call</p>
<p>It's the story and the show we've all come to know<br>
The Boss didn't know, so it goes<br>
But they flex to arrest the flow<br>
1984' knockin' atchyo' do'<br>
As they vie and spy for total contro'<br>
Diggin' til they find what they wanna know<br>
Strippin' away the layers of our soul<br>
Claimin' their siege is Constitutional</p>
<p>Ya better think, but don't blink<br>
Watch 'em move quick to get a distraction into action<br>
The process is pretty slick, I'll admit<br>
Made easy in this world of point and click<br>
Sam's a chef cookin' up a story built for traction <br>
Something with a guaranteed reaction<br>
That'll draw the lines and divide the factions</p>
<p>Who cares what it is<br>
So long as it brings back that sense of bliss<br>
Anything to keep us from raisin' our fists<br>
Too much attention to their ugly reflection<br>
is somethin' they don't wanna risk<br>
in this game of electronic stop and frisk </p>
<p>He's got the tools<br>
lookin' for the parts<br>
to make the fix<br>
The grid's goin' dark<br>
until he can nix<br>
what's on that disk</p>
<p>From the top leakin' to the bottom<br>
Ya can see where the free flow of information becomes a problem<br>
But who's gonna stop 'em?<br>
Rulin' with a black list iron fist <br>
Sam's lockin' up citizens like they won't be missed<br>
He's got shackles for all our wrists<br>
If we step out to raise our voice or clench our fists</p>
<p>Anytime he's caught he shows us<br>
Power is bought and sold<br>
Step outta line and he'll<br>
offer a reminder of just how many<br>
his prisons can hold</p>
<p>Change for the worse, is change all the same<br>
And our name bears the shame of this charade<br>
The winds of change are blowin' cold <br>
And if we don't stand firm and bold<br>
I wonder, how much time<br>
have we got before we're too old?</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-88117701094393937812013-04-17T20:08:00.002-07:002013-05-01T14:39:49.428-07:00Long DeadThere's a silence in the air<br />
A calm before the chaos<br />
Of our misalignment laid bare<br />
Before the flames, pain, and despair<br />
Stop and gawk, point, and stare <br />
Take heed of the stillness in the air<br />
<br />
Winds of change lie in wait<br />
As we inflate the divide<br />
And fill it with our hate<br />
With the pressure approaching an unstable state<br />
We're faced with a matter of choice, not fate<br />
But maybe its too late <br />
<br />
We're buried in a society bent on its image<br />
How it looks, and what it should wear<br />
With the only concerns being<br />
How much to keep<br />
And how little to share<br />
<br />
The motto adopted and repeated<br />
Time after time:<br />
What's fair is fair<br />
What's mine is mine<br />
In a life misaligned<br />
Hear em sing! <br />
What's mine is mine<br />
Is mine is mine is mine....<br />
<br />
Bringin' to life, life outta focus<br />
Young minds misaligned<br />
Money is the object of our eye<br />
The only thing more important<br />
Is to have just a little more than the other guy<br />
It doesn't matter who it could help<br />
Just imagine all it can buy!<br />
Never mind the smoke in the sky<br />
That fire's burnin' in some factory in a country on the otherside<br />
<br />
So far It's been a wild ride<br />
Bumps and ups and downs<br />
But we gotta remember<br />
Gravity intersects the ground<br />
So I'm tellin ya<br />
The higher ya fly, the faster ya fall<br />
And the flames of the crash<br />
Gonna engulf us all<br />
<br />
Like ya head in the end of a cannon<br />
Or cattle on the tracks standin'<br />
Ya can see what's gonna happen<br />
But on we go,<br />
FULL SPEED AHEAD!<br />
signals the Captain<br />
As we follow an order of never endin' expansion<br />
Diggin holes for McMansion after McMansion<br />
Just dig a few more and demand<br />
Will gain enough traction,<br />
Man put the pedal to the floor,<br />
Get this plan into action!<br />
<br />
A growth reduction?<br />
<br />
No. Fucking. Way.<br />
<br />
Just cook up a little consumption,<br />
Sure test the theory,<br />
Press the assumption<br />
Just load the guns'n know that <br />
There's no need to change course<br />
With no need for reflective introspection<br />
The tube will capture the collective attention<br />
During this brief interruption<br />
Call it a pause, then resumption of our<br />
Unending consumption<br />
<br />
Whatever it takes,<br />
Just get the trickle to a flow<br />
If ya gotta, just borrow<br />
And hope the debt is<br />
Somethin' ya outgrow<br />
But when ya decide where all that green oughta go,<br />
Why not spend a bit on the tools of war<br />
Ya know, after all, jobs are what the constituents voted for<br />
Nevermind the votes before that sent their last job<br />
To somewhere north of Singapore<br />
<br />
Then why not fight the war<br />
To deplete the stock<br />
Forget the tick tock<br />
Of the debt clock<br />
(we rocked Iraq, anyone gotta plan for Iran?)<br />
Maybe something "classic"
Uncle Sam?<br />
Maybe another fight from the air<br />
Something not so much "Man to Native Land" <br />
<br />
Then cite the need to rebuild<br />
And expand just a little more<br />
All in the name of feet on a factory floor<br />
<br />
Livin' as if everything is fine<br />
As if this time will never be that time <br />
And we can't see the red of our level line,<br />
from tools bent and misaligned<br />
When we're working with a green tint in our eye<br />
Or when the clouds black the sky<br />
Really, what good is it, what's it all for, and why?<br />
<br />
Our own hands constructin'<br />
A path to destruction<br />
Built by all we've been destructin'<br />
We're burning the fire<br />
To freeze the ice<br />
Just because we can<br />
And ya know, it feels nice.<br />
Then we turn around and burn the fire to melt the ice<br />
Cheaply enough to never think twice about how <br />
Homeostasis might be nice<br />
For planets, to men, and even mice<br />
<br />
Speaking of mice? Anyone got a mouse trap?<br />
<br />
As I bring this rhyme to a wrap<br />
One more freehand rant <br />
Just a slice, <br />
A representative sample
that outta be ample<br />
Enough to stamp ya cranial implant<br />
and light ya candle<br />
If everything else was just too much to handle <br />
<br />
To raise our food, plant and animal<br />
We gotta burn the water<br />
Otherwise meant for our cup <br />
to pump the gas<br />
to to power the machines<br />
to mine the salts from the soil<br />
That we use to re-salt the soil<br />
To raise the food under our knife<br />
Leaving behind, as much life<br />
As a pot brought to boil<br />
Then we soil the water in our cup<br />
With the salt we used to raise our food<br />
So it needs cleaned by a process best left unseen <br />
All the while<br />
We burn more water <br />
to pump the gas <br />
that powers the plant, and machines<br />
That cleans the water <br />
And raises our food<br />
then our food raises more of us<br />
and then we burn more water<br />
Otherwise meant for our cup... <br />
<br />
But, we all aren't drinking poison yet<br />
So let's just keep going and see how bad <br />
Our problems will get!<br />
<br />
Worse.<br />
Misaligned and mismanaged<br />
up to our neck, I say it's an easy bet<br />
Though, I get the impression that this is a lesson<br />
We can all forget<br />
Ya see, these problems, it took years to invent 'em<br />
And today there's too much momentum<br />
We see the problems and choices ahead<br />
But we won't prevent 'em<br />
So while we can, let's go get em!<br />
I mean, we'll all be too long dead<br />
To see the outcomes and regret 'em... Right?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-25630542556365454062013-04-01T19:40:00.001-07:002013-05-03T14:36:52.910-07:00Dance When the World StopsFrom the rooftops<br />
I've got a view of the world<br />
Watchin' when it stops<br />
Bombers fly<br />
And the ordinance drops<br />
The fight rages and innocence rots<br />
From the rooftops<br />
I can draw a map of the world and its cemetery plots<br />
<br />
Never minding right and wrong,<br />
Rome is long gone<br />
But the world's hegemon-<br />
Is still singing the same ol' song<br />
"Do what we say" they say,<br />
"or ya won't have long"<br />
<br />
The sanctions are filed<br />
Approved and passed<br />
By the sheep, lined up by rank and file<br />
Served with a smile<br />
And a dose of self righteous denial<br />
Sam's got foreign governments on the stand<br />
With the starving people on trial<br />
Call it death and pain in a new style,<br />
too much like the old style...<br />
<br />
Gasp for breath, forget the cons<br />
Less bombs and more death<br />
Deprive the people<br />
Divide their meals and<br />
Take the roll outta their wheels<br />
Then pretend they can<br />
Rise like uncle Sam<br />
Back in the days of his '76 clan<br />
<br />
The people aren't fools enough<br />
to take a stand for the interests<br />
of a far off foreign land<br />
(Seriously? That's the plan?)<br />
They see the scam and resent<br />
those who would use them as tools<br />
when their government "breaks" the rules<br />
<br />
When the sanctions drop<br />
Who pays for the schools<br />
Who repairs the tools<br />
Feeds the mules<br />
What keeps the desert cool?<br />
Nothing and no one, now don't be fooled<br />
The world stops when the sanctions drop<br />
<br />
From desert sands and nearest islands<br />
to the jungle mist, is there a line of latitude I missed?<br />
Uncle Sam cocked like Dirty Harry<br />
Policin' the globe with a black list iron fist<br />
The king and his robe denyin' others while he consumes his way to bliss<br />
<br />
But watch and see him hop<br />
High as the moon<br />
To his own tune<br />
Though the track may be<br />
Uh' changin' soon<br />
<br />
On he goes<br />
Never making room<br />
For another point of view<br />
Hear him say!<br />
Just dance the way of the<br />
Red white and blue!<br />
Ya know, because we know <br />
What's best for you!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-29143002554233200512013-03-16T22:09:00.000-07:002013-04-03T16:35:00.241-07:00Model of the FutureOn the horizon I see trouble<br />
A model of the past erected from the rubble<br />
of the crash and thunder rumble<br />
Movin' forward but lookin' back<br />
We're building a model for the future<br />
and we're painting it black<br />
<br />
If there's anything white<br />
it's pouring from a smoke stack<br />
Fillin' store shelves rack after rack<br />
Fillin' void after void<br />
Thrillin' lives devoid<br />
of any kind of peaceful feelin'<br />
Sweatin' heavy under the line of credit they been squeezin'<br />
<br />
The image ain't pleasin'<br />
But this was a moment made for seizin'<br />
I'll start with the man in the mirror<br />
Staring at my reflection<br />
I feel a cool wind breezin' <br />
And the picture is becoming clearer<br />
Man, and now it's freezin' <br />
Now, I can see him<br />
He kinda looks like me<br />
And he kinda looks like you<br />
But he doesn't breathe<br />
And his body's gone blue<br />
<br />
But that can't be true<br />
My body ain't cold<br />
And my blood's runnin' red<br />
I think I've got thoughts in my head...<br />
But maybe that's how it is once we're dead<br />
<br />
A real model for the future<br />
No cape, no kryptonite<br />
But we'll call him super!<br />
The model man fit for the future!<br />
Clean suit, clean shave<br />
Fast car, fancy house<br />
Watching time tear apart<br />
That plastic spouse<br />
Living life always<br />
wishin' he wasn't a mouse<br />
Over and over<br />
Countin' and countin' the amount'n <br />
Never knowin' what it was all about <br />
<br />
We're living life buried beneath the strife<br />
Never seeing that we died when they buried the knife<br />
Our hearts pumpin' ice, a pathetic sight<br />
Living a life dimmer than<br />
The deepest night<br />
We're the perpetrators of our plight<br />
Bringing upon ourselves, blight after blight<br />
And in case you're missin' it<br />
Let me rephrase it<br />
Like this, I'll say it <br />
We're complicit victims of the systems ready to be processed<br />
In a process of exact extraction<br />
Pullin' the soul from even the darkest, deepest hole<br />
The furnace burns and the tanks roll<br />
As the dream begins to take its toll <br />
It's the same ol', same ol'<br />
Poison in the air,<br />
Poison underground<br />
Venom in my veins<br />
And a heart too cold to pound<br />
<br />
Super models of the future<br />
A smoocher and a moocher<br />
The model woman<br />
Independent and fierce<br />
But dependent enough that only<br />
diamonds had better pierce those ears<br />
Crying tears when her part demands<br />
The model woman, <br />
living off the model man<br />
Both wrapped in vanity<br />
Too tight to see reality or<br />
understand the real plan<br />
<br />
We're building a model for the future<br />
Where the sea of vanity<br />
Knows no bounds<br />
A place an honest man would drown<br />
See the beasts circlin' asunder <br />
The models of the future<br />
Breathin' through their gills<br />
As their greed makes 'em bottom feed for dollar bills<br />
Chasin' cheaper and cheaper thrills<br />
Fallin' back on a set of primal skills <br />
They covet one another's<br />
With brothers guttin' brothers<br />
Just for one to out-drill the other<br />
<br />
Look around, up and down<br />
Believe me when I tell ya, son<br />
This lesson is far from over and done<br />
Look around to see the model man <br />
Pumping out the model young<br />
<br />
The model for the model young<br />
All those model daughters and sons <br />
Is the gift of a cocked & loaded gun<br />
Handed to the childr'n<br />
for a game of cap peelin' <br />
Where they're compelled to fill their world with filth-'n<br />
Impelled to model the models who came before 'em<br />
Now the model man can sit back and let the TV implore 'em <br />
Get 'em while they're young and the tube'll never bore 'em<br />
<br />
We're building a model for the future<br />
Where image knows no bounds<br />
Night falls and the green-eyed monsters surround<br />
The trick is to spend every penny we're allowed<br />
Then spend just a little more<br />
Just enough to have to work our feet into the floor<br />
<br />
A world wrong when it's right<br />
Facing an induction<br />
Of destruction<br />
Built on a frame of corruption<br />
We're constructing<br />
A model for the future<br />
Looter after polluter<br />
Feeding the mass of<br />
consumer producers<br />
Filling the ranks<br />
Troopers stormin' after troopers <br />
<br />
In this world<br />
A point and click is the right direction<br />
Wise intentions are fictional inventions<br />
Here it's convention to seek each and every drip drop of attention<br />
And it's even true, that for the right price,<br />
Even you can buy a little love and affection.<br />
Go ahead, pay for a taste of the model of perfection <br />
<br />
A model built in a glass bottle<br />
Never fit for sea, but pushed ahead full throttle<br />
Never hearin' the songs unsung<br />
Never thinkin' of the bottom rung <br />
The model man, The model woman<br />
And the model young<br />
livin' out a life<br />
Any Creator would call far flung <br />
<br />
Models of the future<br />
Built on ideas of the past<br />
We're movin' forward lookin' back<br />
and our luck ain't gonna last<br />
We're lettin' the pressure rise<br />
without preparin' for the blast<br />
and we've all got credit in the cast<br />
It's time to take off the mask<br />
and let go of our fear,<br />
Take a look in a mirror and ask<br />
Why does my future, look like my past?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-79288349032498832342013-03-11T05:36:00.004-07:002013-03-11T05:36:43.587-07:00Weary Where the Time GoesOld is but a frame of mind<br />Though, at times we may wish to quit<br />Just look to all we find once we've endured it<br />
Today, I say<br />Enjoy the sound<br />Turn that frown upside down<br />For Rainy Days and Mondays are always bound to come aroundUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-57124562250278658212013-02-27T16:14:00.000-08:002013-03-12T14:29:28.593-07:00Bury My HeartStart to finish<br />
Visions I can't diminish<br />
Rhymes in my brain<br />
Images of darkness, hell, and pain<br />
Finding their way to words<br />
On my page<br />
Ideas borne of incessant rage?<br />
Or the wisdom of an aberrant sage?<br />
<br />
With no rhythm or melody<br />
I've got my rhymes <br />
Painting pictures of a dark reality<br />
Maybe you'll wonder "How cold can he really be?"<br />
But I hope the words flowing from me<br />
Open your mind <br />
And brighten your eyes to see<br />
A world where your lungs are gonna find it hard to breathe<br />
<br />
North, South, East, and West<br />
We're puttin' our luck to the test<br />
Mess after mess<br />
One after another<br />
Swept under the rug like the rest<br />
<br />
From the fields and streams<br />
To concrete jungles of streets<br />
The mountainous peaks<br />
to the barren oceans deep<br />
Decaying waste leaks, <br />
and the propants seep<br />
Days "beyond index" turn to weeks<br />
Leaving the outlook kinda bleak<br />
Normally, anger and pain would begin to creep<br />
But just as I speak<br />
the Dow is about to peak<br />
Just one collapse or another playing<br />
Hide and seek<br />
Sneak peeks at a world crumbling beneath our feet<br />
<br />
Who knows the source<br />
Of the flows<br />
Of the ups, downs<br />
Highs and lows<br />
The valleys and mountains<br />
Where my mind goes <br />
From finish to start<br />
A river of images flowin'<br />
showin' a world fallin' apart<br />
<br />
At the border down south <br />
Native lands with a war torn<br />
poor living hand to mouth<br />
Children in the fields<br />
The sun bakes and their skin peels<br />
Living on whatever the suits don't steal<br />
The game is profit<br />
The score is yield<br />
That's the deal<br />
<br />
Fires march and the drums roll<br />
Our thirst for darkness takes its toll <br />
As the pain starts at the hole for my soul<br />
A place where no lights shine to hide the dark<br />
It's here I'll bury my heart<br />
<br />
West to east<br />
We see the war isn't over<br />
No, not in the least<br />
A decade it took<br />
And we just couldn't kill the beast<br />
Play the charade by the book<br />
And don't hold your breath for peace<br />
(Just ask: Who's next on the hook for the empire to fleece?)<br />
<br />
Like the sweater unraveling from <br />
finish to start<br />
I see a pulling thread<br />
on my heart <br />
buried in the dark<br />
with the forgotten dead<br />
Bodies blue on an anger red<br />
"Not I, not I" they said<br />
<br />
In an East always in the middle<br />
Lookin' from<br />
the ground to the sky<br />
We see the hawks fly <br />
And the doves flee<br />
Two years round and round<br />
Circlin' the sounds of absurdities<br />
Reels of footage thrillin'<br />
Capturin' blood spillin' on both banks of the Euphrates <br />
While the living hell of shell after shell saw<br />
80,000 blasted away from this reality<br />
A fight between the powers that be<br />
Ya know, Inaction and Complicity<br />
Fighting anywhere they need<br />
From sea to shining sea<br />
And all the deserts and jungles<br />
in between<br />
<br />
You can ignore what you see<br />
Bury your head in the clouds<br />
Grasp for eternity<br />
And fill your mind with glee<br />
But you'll come to find<br />
By land and air or sea<br />
your escape is empty<br />
<br />
In a North, <br />
barred from its South<br />
More souls living hand to mouth<br />
A tiger who wishes he wasn't a mouse<br />
Opens a rift in the sky<br />
And burns a chasm <br />
in the ground<br />
With no reason why<br />
A violent spasm <br />
as my heart forgets to pound<br />
<br />
It's nothing new<br />
Just somethin' new to dismiss <br />
Death, destruction<br />
Pain and avarice<br />
From day one we've been<br />
Teeterin' on this precipice <br />
It's an unraveling<br />
And we're all pulling our part<br />
From start to finish<br />
And finish to start<br />
I'm livin' my life<br />
Standing as a man apart<br />
<br />
I've buried my heart with the forgotten<br />
So when it seems like my soul is<br />
nothing but twisted and rotted<br />
Remember, I'm buried<br />
with the forgotten<br />
the locked up,<br />
the dead and downtrodden<br />
And when you finally bury your heart<br />
You'll wonder too, <br />
as its pulse is droppin'<br />
For all our knowledge and all our effort<br />
Where have we ever really gotten?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-85925342611519684472013-02-13T20:21:00.002-08:002013-02-15T10:06:19.199-08:00Open Mic NightWe got 'em all<br />
Irish, redheads, and blondes<br />
Daughters, brothers<br />
Mothers and sons<br />
No tellin' how deep<br />
The connection runs<br />
Through the ground<br />
<br />
Scott out with the sound<br />
But Vernell up front <br />
Leading the pack<br />
All the way from the back<br />
Clayton can't hear shit<br />
As he'll readily admit<br />
But on we go bit by bit<br />
No Mic on stage <br />
Won't stop the show,<br />
oh no no no<br />
We gonna roll with it<br />
<br />
With us tonight<br />
We got a few newbies<br />
One of em writes<br />
But they're just Hayden's groupies<br />
The boy gotta gang<br />
Straight outta the movies<br />
<br />
Though their image<br />
Can be groovy<br />
Early on and throughout <br />
they tell us "Drugs are bad m'kay"<br />
But jokes aside,<br />
Its true what they say<br />
The needle, the smoke<br />
To the grass we toke<br />
They all gonna put us<br />
In the ground one day<br />
<br />
A talk to make<br />
The masses contemplate<br />
A world on the verge of check mate <br />
A message crafted to motivate anger <br />
over our mangled state <br />
Writing about our mess<br />
Others playing checkers<br />
While we got Brandon playing chess<br />
<br />
Rob bringing the heat<br />
His heart drumming<br />
To a high up righteous beat<br />
Putting Christ on trial<br />
His is a different bible<br />
But his words offer<br />
Their own revival <br />
One of earthly acceptance<br />
Not of heavenly denial<br />
<br />
Love is in the air tonight<br />
And we know its gonna show<br />
When the poets start to write<br />
Different perspectives<br />
Differentiate love in<br />
Individuals from the collective<br />
Nerds in love<br />
Lovers out of love<br />
The lonely love<br />
So much love<br />
It's never enough<br />
Love going, <br />
love coming<br />
Blood flowing and love pumping <br />
The hearts on stage are really something<br />
<br />
Scott got back<br />
Bringing the Mic <br />
To pick up the slack<br />
And with Bryant <br />
found outta town<br />
Hayden been taking all the flak <br />
Under attack, but for all this love stuff he just ain't got a nack<br />
But its cool, if his girl don't <br />
Like 'em white, she can have 'em black<br />
Or if she wants, another lady in the sack<br />
<br />
Jeff has pain and anger in his heart<br />
It looks like a thread pulling<br />
From finish to start<br />
Hopin' and copin' with a world fallin' apart<br />
<br />
Rick the wizard<br />
Casting magic with his wand<br />
Castles to pigs, and lizards<br />
In a style of which<br />
We're all quite fond<br />
His spells spell concise<br />
Bringing the might<br />
Every night in a package <br />
Wrapped up oh so tight<br />
Rick the wizard folks<br />
Every Wednesday night<br />
<br />
The pen names help us draw to a close<br />
So too the rhythm and rhymes begin slow<br />
To a trickle from the flow<br />
That's all for the show <br />
<br />
It's open Mic<br />
Wednesday night<br />
Writers block got the <br />
House rockin'<br />
A party from 8 to 10<br />
Always alive and hoppin'<br />
Bringing heat some <br />
Might call heart stoppin'<br />
But there ain't no stoppin'<br />
17 years and runnin' <br />
And tonight ya see<br />
The pace we're clockin'<br />
Can be measured by the jaws droppin'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-31125565189779962542013-01-25T10:45:00.004-08:002013-02-15T07:53:27.159-08:00Brothers AllWe'll devour each other<br />
Sticking our blade through a brother<br />
Just before we start cuttin' down one another<br />
<br />
The pain from which we suffer<br />
Vanishes as we strike down our lover<br />
Day by day, the sickness makin' us tougher<br />
Wild animals getting rougher and rougher<br />
<br />
When we devour each other<br />
We blame the blade that killed our brother<br />
Never lookin' for the answers in one anotherUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621295117849660482.post-35105565406038759812013-01-21T17:31:00.000-08:002013-02-10T16:44:26.426-08:00You'd do it tooSelling out,<br />
giving in, <br />
given up<br />
Say he's never<br />
been more corrupt<br />
<br />
Say what you want<br />
Say what ya will<br />
I saw dolla' signs in my rhymes and <br />
Now it's like I'm comittin' a capital crime<br />
<br />
You know<br />
You'd do it too<br />
Ya know,<br />
Rob' the rest <br />
just to save a few<br />
From one in ya crew<br />
To the stranger
someone knew<br />
The point is, you'd do it too<br />
Ya know,<br />
Rob' the rest<br />
Just to save a few <br />
<br />
The rich got it so great <br />
Ya say, ya say, and ya say<br />
But what about asking<br />
Who made 'em that way?<br />
<br />
They got so much flow<br />
Why can't they pay for <br />
this, that, and so much mo'?<br />
Make em pay, make em pay<br />
Come what dreams may<br />
Listen close, man of clay<br />
Ignorance is bliss they say<br />
<br />
I'd show ya the way<br />
But if ya see a mirror<br />
The picture gonna get<br />
Get a whole lot clearer<br />
Go ahead, move nearer<br />
No need to fear her<br />
<br />
Now<br />
If you choose to see<br />
Which you won't<br />
You'd see <br />
your own reflection<br />
In all that shouldn't be<br />
Ya know the old line<br />
"Gee, maybe it's me."<br />
<br />
From sea to shining sea<br />
A captivatin' fixation<br />
Pervades the nation<br />
Everyday, a dead presidential nomination <br />
Got ya chasing dollar bills<br />
Of each and every denomination<br />
<br />
The paint on ya face<br />
To the gems on ya jeans<br />
Ya up on stage with <br />
thoughts of money and fame dancing in ya dreams<br />
As if yours are different<br />
From the devils schemes<br />
<br />
The dreams of dollar signs<br />
Fill ya mind<br />
A little alliteration and a rhyme<br />
But they don't make any sense<br />
When ya confuse white trash<br />
With the not so poor, not so hungry, middle class<br />
It's a crime of a rhyme <br />
that just don't pass<br />
<br />
I don't mean to be angry<br />
And blast, and I don't<br />
Mean to talk any trash<br />
<br />
But<br />
You know<br />
you'd do it too<br />
Ya know,<br />
Rob' the rest <br />
just to save a few<br />
From one in ya crew<br />
To the stranger someone knew<br />
The point is, you'd do it too<br />
Ya know,<br />
Rob' the rest<br />
Just to save a fewUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1