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Dedication.
Dedication of Black Boy & Black Girl
Odes is assigned Akil & Regina Gregory.
They and all people past & future of mud
skin, purple lips African descent, male &
female who may wonder at a better way to
live, perceive receive & love one another.
Those of us who, at one time or another,
found or will find themselves wondering
where their loyalties lay: a red lips, white
skin, blu-eyed flag of the America we're
in, or, a purple lips, black skin & brown
eyed flag of the Africa we're out of. A first
menshund a whitewash forgetting history;
A latter a blackwash & remembering…
Be safe. Be seeing u- Morgan Makoi.
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..All of Us...
1.
calm is the child.
He wonder'd, at her composure
At her bless' ed cool, balm, mild.
He wonder'd, and she told him: when
the parent’s calm, calm is the child.
We wonder
why they thunder
or why they get so loud
At a place requiring better grace
or quietude in a crowd.
On a bus or somewhere with us
where some chill is the better bet
We wonder as they thunder
why they haven't learned etiquette.
Well it's learned from the crib.
It's the way that we live. Will you
hype up or will you calm down?
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When they ask, then you tell them: when
the parent's calm, calm is the child.
Don't go all in
with an inciting grin
when what's without doubt best
is that you chill out.
yes but listen.
When they ask, then you tell them: when
the parent's calm, calm is the child.
When they ask, then you tell them: when
the parent’s calm, calm is the child.
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2.
Stop it.
Exceptionalism
Buttresses
Black Man, Black Woman.
Yes but listen, as long as
for them? we run jumping?
It’s basically not clear, but,
it appears -disrespect.
They'll keep coming.
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3.
It’s Never Clear.
hmm.
Some ever changing
as the weather
too oft are caught off base.
In flux. They get stuck.
Run around & amok;
wrong time & wrong place.
yes but listen.
Some ever the similar-same
keep it real even when they be fake.
There's but truth & fact.
Stay Down. Stay Black.
A better way is never clear.
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4.
Aiolet.
Violet is Aiolet
Red is Ved
its inversion.
One is the light.
One is the lie.
Guides to paradise
or to hell's incursion.
Exversion / Excursion &
BlackLight immersion
save us from them & ourselves.
Heat rises & dies.
Chill stays grounded, survives.
fact or lie? truth between: choose well.
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5.
Nobody’s Perfect.
Nobody's perfect
when nothing is not.
Who told me that?
Well, I learned it a lot.
Nobody's perfect
when nothing gets done.
Understand that.
and truth is this? We have won tons.
Nobody's perfect
yes but listen, pick you something.
Then people we won't trial and
error? indulge any old thing.
Nobody's perfect
yes but break it all down.
We need a calm chill flag of melanin’s
purple, black and brown.
Nobody's perfect
yes but until we get one we'll do
what pledges to hot-headed redneck,
white and blue eyes tell us all to.
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6.
Stay Out.
Don’t look within
look without
the latter is where
you'll find Allah no doubt.
Understand thy self.
Is it a curse? No.
Black skin is a map
of earth and universe.
As with outer spaces
purple-black epidermis without.
As with inner spaces
red-white hypodermis is housed.
As with center spaces
brown dermis chooses a team.
Atomic Black light
subduing the White blight
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or,
Nuclear White getting out—
all lying...
all frying..
all dying.
Understand thy self.
Is it a toll? No.
Black skin is a map
of the better soul.
As with outer space;
Black cold calm rules all strife within.
As with inner space
White heated fools fuel
when kept buried and unseen.
As with middle space
the mediator is brown.
Urging the bright, stay incarcerated
urging the dark, Stay Out.
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7.
Ode to the Ratchet.
Decent
stank ass ho’s
I love the most.
African funk, bring it back,
now I don’t wonna coast.
Yes but I’m a do or do
down democrat donkey.
She want my vote?
Booty gotta be funky.
Dirtball
bad outside.
Inside so clean.
No goodie-good
but does what she should
her love withstood all obscene.
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Decent
stank ass ho’s
I love the most.
Oxymoronic
is the tonic and
I don’t wonna boast.
Yes but though a do or do
Down socialist donkey
with ever to be better
being the most profound key
I don’t aspire higher.
I get down lower in key.
bump that BASS (how low can you go)...
humble existence...
a better way is not clear.
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8.
Ring.
She said,
'Every little ring, ring, ring'
she was always...
thinking of me.
to realize with those eyes
I had found paradise
I was too blind at the time to see...
It was my head telling my heart to think.
Yes but listen
or what’s missin’ is she be all that I need...
So now every little ring, ring, ring
I wonder...
Who gives her the love she couldn't
get from me?
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ring, ring, ring.
And I remember her.
Like she was when we were
happy.
ring, ring, ring;
I miss her simple dance.
The nights of Africance.
Her new growth silk soft and nappy.
She used to beg me just to
sing, sing, sing.
all those sweet things
I'd written for her.
But when I opened my mouth
appeard all that came out
were old fights too many times rehearsed.
Nothing but painful words.
So now it hurts too much to
think, think, think.
Of the loss and thoughts of things
like 'What might be'...
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So now?
Every little ring, ring, ring?
Seriously...
to be down with her, that's
all I want to be.
Does she ever remember me—
in a bed, no so full as it used to be?
Does she ever feel that certain cold,
only I’d keep out as her I’d hold?
Every ‘ring’ today means something
now different than then.
Yes but listen,
even still I remember just when
w/every ring, ring, ring was a
promise of tomorrow
where always to stay together we’d
work, take or borrow.
Is it too late to get back to where we were?
A brotha only needs one ring, gyrl.
ring, ring, ring.
I know it won’t be her; but still I wish it
were; like she was when we were- happy.
I miss her simple dance; nights oh so Afri-
can; her new growth silk soft & nappy::
(mm-hmm). mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
mm-hmm. mm-hmm, mm-hmm. hmm…
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..Black Girl…
10.
Lil Girl Boo.
There was a little girl...
Her eyes shown like the stars above.
Baby dolls that cried and crawled...
weren't all that she was dreaming of.
She dreamed she was a princess.
One day she'd be a queen...
And all the world would love her.
Even mommy would stop being mean.
There was a little girl.
She dreamed someday she'd have
her chance.
She'd find her forever love...
they'd live a life's sweet Africance.
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Firm hands would caress her.
She'd feel he kept her safe...
and all the hurts she'd ever felt...
Would simply go away.
There was a little girl...
Her eyes aren't quite so bright
these days.
She’s found herself a man...
He's not the best but he's ok.
Promises aplenty...
yes but most be that same old same.
truth is this: there're many...
that don't make much difference
anyway.
Promises of plenty.
Without a doubt that’s what they say.
truth is this: heights are overrated
stay down, a better way’s not clear…
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As One.
Mean it then be better.
Mean it then be down.
Do for one another then
finally finally we've won.
Mean it then be doing it.
Mean it then be done.
Let's not say we're sorry...
Aspire that we'll without doubt
Mean it, no weird wondering.
Mean it straight away.
No more paying it forward.
AmeriKKKa-- pay it back, reparate.
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Mean it then be better.
Mean it then bottom line
Give me your love don't make me steal.
Left out I feel. No, it's not right.
Left out I feel. Let's spend all our time
As One. As One. As One.
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..Black Boy…
12.
the Measure of a Man.
Sometimes I find I'm feeling so
confused.
So many lies but tell me where's
the truth.
I'm only wanting that I understood
just where it is I stand...
I want the secrets of the universe.
To know whose really blessed and
who is cursed.
I'm wanting someday that I understand
the Measure of a Man.
Tell me my brothers have we gone
insane?
We hold the key but we still wear
the chains.
Its basically not clear but there’s
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a chance
we can love ourselves again...
We're killing one another everyday.
Its us or them now thats just what I say
But for the record won’t someone state
the Measure of a Man.
A batter’d sista heaves a heavy sigh.
She wipes a tear or two and dries
her eyes.
She couldn't tell you even if she tried
just where it all began.
He says he loves her with a heavy hand.
Next time he hit her just might be
his last.
He can’t recall and he afraid to ask
the Measure of a Man.
We can go off into outer space...
Circle earth until time ends or fade away
But when we get b(l)ack we'll still
have to face— the Measure of a Man...
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13.
By All Means.
My favorite
words to hear
are 'baby, I'm paying'...
But you know
I'm worth the earth you walk on
I abide the basics... of good love.
It's not clear why
though do or die's what you're sayin…
whether you know that
give and get's the better way and
By all means.
Kick off your shoes
don't cry the blues it's no trouble...
mm-hmm...
By All Means.
Let me draw a bath w/the bubbles
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mm-hmm…
By all means.
I made you dinner am I being subtle
mm-hmm…
By all means.
rub you up and down and down do
double...
mm-hmm…
I undress her
when we're getting down...
mm-hmm…
She dresses me
when we're going out...
mm-hmm…
She understands
and one place I've enough clout...
is in her heart
when it appears she's giving ground
I hold back & I hold her down, boo
By all means.
Kick off your shoes
don't cry the blues it's no trouble...
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mm-hmm…
By all means.
Let me draw a bath w/the bubbles
mm-hmm…
By all means.
I made you dinner am I being subtle
mm-hmm…
By all means.
Rub you up and down then down
do double.
mm-hmm…
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My Work.
My work is all play.
I write down words and relaxate.
Ain't nothin' left to do but wait.
If I didn't have to sleep?
My pens and pencils would beg ink.
Purple or black: bury the red and pink.
Similarities don't bore us.
Not when the alternative is war's rut.
Differences are not the norm nut.
So I do the same thang.
I express myself between the lanes.
Sometimes I fall down but so does rain.
Existentialism's Realist has stated.
It’s basically not clear so accept all as
situated.
You navigate it all then most unfaded.
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Existentialism.
The way of existence
is Black outer space.
He's cold, calm and kind mostly
yes but ruling with an iron fist.
The way of existence
is brown inner space.
She bucks but submits.
Yes but listen, she well knows her place.
He and she groove but
neva with a tongue do they kiss.
The land is sun stroked, neva sun licked.
The Suns aspirations? they are academic:
Shine it's black face's light
Shine it's brown face's light.
His ultra-violet kiss on the cheek
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all strengthening.
The way of existence
is Black's ruling race.
As abundant as the sun's dance
bright brown across the dark frown
of our face.
As with bass thunder...
and tenor rain;
the skies are blue, true
but the eyes are the brown of no pain...
of beautiful days we'd go out and play.
The way of existence
is bumping noses and poses
African Eskimoses who's cold love is
most subtle
that’s the way that the better show it.
The way of existence
it be:
living, loving, laughing, dying
with dignity.
As with springs springing and falls falling
of leaves...
blown brown on cool dancing of breeze.
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Becoming winter's
cold black fertile soil mulch...
resting under
a cropped hot white hair of snow.
We're old until spring.
When then with summer we see:
earth's black and brown hair return
lipped by purple wild flowers... and
greenery...
Some places in the world? they
never leave.
Summer's summit, truth, then falls
and we all— do it again and again...
basic blackness observes unmoved
outerspace encompassing it all like a
black tent:
then we all do it again & again again.
that's the way of all existence.
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Dirt.
Who said dirt was dirty
that’s what I say.
I remember I’d do dirt
when I’d go out and play.
Mud pies, mud facials
mud in your eye.
Dirt’s clean, if you ask me
When it’s outside.
Let me tell you
you can’t put it better than that.
Past that, left to me?
Truth’s dirt we come from
and we’ll go back.
No presently you can’t convince me
that you’re truly right:
inhale oxygen, exhale carbonite.
That’s a clue, it’s what we do
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stand stalwart, stand stout.
Be right inside even though
that means you be left out.
Who said dirt was dirty
that’s what I say.
Bright and dark
there’re a morass of shades.
Mud pies, mud facials
mud in your eye.
Dirt’s clean, if you ask me
when it’s outside
Dirt’s clean, if you ask me
when it’s outside.
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..black girl…
17.
Ms. Black Woman.
You're a simple dip.
A straight trip.
But now you're a mother...
and nobody has to check you:
You check yourself now & all others.
I'll spell it out for you sista
if it be you really need me
further.
You'd blow a brother's last nerve
all the shit you talk could
drive a man to straight murder...
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But all the while you're calm
it's like a balm
and I can't stay mad at you long.
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You say you like to read? So do I;
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Turn me on to something
dark and mysterious like yourself.
Read that.
All I want is you and you and you
nobody else.
I'll take the weight
from your straight slender
brown frame yeah and that shelf...
you warehouse all your worries on.
Black Woman, I just want to help.
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Are you down? and without doubt?
or, at least, getting there?
A better way is not clear.
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Lo and behold.
That's what I say every time I think
of you.
Truth be told?
You're all I want just to have and to
hold.
Ms. Black Woman
I'll feel that way when we’re old.
On a back porch swing...
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or if for you I sing...
or going out evenings for a stroll.
____________
There's bad behind us
but there's nobody to blame.
Stick with me woman
you'll feel better every time you
say my name.
When he created you
baby boo he mos def blew the mold...
The shade you throw
it comforts so- I'll hold you down always...
As long as you boo do the same for me.
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..black boy & black girl…
18.
Love Simpatico.
She wants...
her shoulders rubbed, when they ache.
She says,
keep it real even when you be fake.
She understands seriously well
just what's at stake— love simpatico.
He wants...
to be better understood...
He says,
dag woman, you should stop playin.
I wish that you would'.
He understands seriously well
how much he was a fool… that's
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love simpatico.
She says,
'shade me from
the White woman’s pride.
She hates me.
My DNA caught her man's eye'.
He says,
'Shade me from
the White man's hate.
Whether he smiles or sneers
he fears
my DNA...
he fears his woman's feelin' me...
he fears our not pledging allegiance to his
bright creed.'
They understand seriously well
that what's at stake be
love simpatico.
You ask, 'What does love mean?'
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Well I'll tell you a fact.
Some things do
but some just don't mean a thing jack...
they're there...
and that's just that. Love simpatico.
Yes but love doesn't tear us apart...
not when you're in the groove.
It's indecision which tears us apart
the indecision of all damn fools.
So choose a side:
Chill love or your heated pride.
One will be there and one will be
fleeting...
One will be cool and one will be
seething.
Wear the one that you choose
and then let that garment rule you.
Then bury the one that you don't
and no cheating (we won't).
Love is a feeling and not a thought.
Love is never sold & never bought.
Love is either there or love is not.
If it's not but you're falling?
you still feel it a lot.
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Love's usual is that basic
and just can’t be stopped.
Love's rhyme sometimes has no
reason otherwise left to be found.
that's love simpatico.
He says,
‘Be seriously most buttressing...
or, at least, getting there.
I'll rub your shoulders and say bey
you can line my hair’.
She says,
‘Be seriously most buttressing...
or, at least, getting there.
You rub my shoulders and beyond
and I'll line your hair’.
She chooses,
Better serious love than pride above.
He chooses,
Better serious love than pride above.
They have similar goals... they're of
the same wavelength's soul:
that there is love... Love Simpatico.
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20.
Black Boy & Black Girl.
Black Girl...
Yes but the future field
of what Black Girl feels real
is a responsible Black Boy
that she can get down with.
Father material most basically...
Or, at least, aspiring to be.
He who meantime seriously
respects her and protects her gift.
Black Boy?
You want as much the same.
When you be better trained.
Will a father or surrogate do it?
You want a woman who is chill...
Who reflects you and who will...
respect your manhood without
saying (in wicked ways), 'prove it'.
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I wasn't there for mine.
Yes but, from a distance? I'd spend
all my time...
to educate him, get back and redo it.
Yes but listen
they swear that, 'That's ok.
We're all past it. We don't need
anything...'
yes but since that's not bothering us
now, we can cool it.
I write for my Black Boy...
to kill or cure
the cripple minded, bloodthirsty world
for posterity, his Black Girl and all
their kids & my future great great (can
you relate) great great great grand kids.
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..black man…
21.
Mr. Black Man.
Went to
Saint Mary's with infected
lacerations...
to get it out: no amputation.
Only to be D.O.G.'d as if on queue.
I could've dropped
heart stopped and died.
Another Nigga dead
or cripple & why (they laugh inside).
Get hip. That's true.
Don't waist the clue.
Here it go now, what we must do.
It's going down.
Cuz Justice of the Peace;
you kept and keep my people
on a leash.
We're skinnin' grinnin', red and pink:
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its your scheme
to make us clowns.
Yes but when we all are fools
& by that I mean
when we all look like you:
Whose blood will you suck?
Whose lives will you fuck?
to better your gene pool?
You make us slaves and
Brainwashed; & look what we got.
Wishy-washed; now we wish
we were what we're not.
Tricked; we bought a dream
it sould us out.
If ever there was
now there can be no doubt.
Break it down
Mr. Black Man.
What's your home address?
Remember what you forgot as you slept.
Break it down Mr. Black Man.
Shed the psychologic shame.
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When your day is done
you'll have won
But in what shape will you remain.
Do you do?
Tell me true.
Think that life is fine and dandy?
Just a big maraschino cherry?
Well now if you do
Brotha I've got news for you.
Cuz it's not White's red corvette.
It's purple reign Blood if you want
future B(l)ack.
Let's break it down
and get around to what all of us must do.
But brainwashed?
We're all going insane.
Wishy-washed?
We wish for what put us back in chains.
Skinnin grinnin fo a little peace of a pie
Washed in the blood of White's
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Red Devil Lie.
Break it down
Mr. Black Man.
What's your color scheme?
Is it Red Corvette?
or Purple Reign you speak?
Break it down
Mr. Black Man.
You don't ride the fence
you choose.
Left of center
is the winner & winners never lose.
Blood it’s not clear cuz more than here
it's when we go there that we'll rule.
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..us…
22.
Purple Plum Lips.
She’s demure, solid, pure
humble she be.
Even when she explodes
explicitly.
I say, ‘Go on boo, with yo’ bad self.
‘because bad, it be better fo’ my
health’.
It’s not clear why
do or die was the way we lived.
When you find out boo
the better bet is get and give.
Don’t get heated
I need it in a cold sweat.
Down and dirty, the word is
when I get it, get it:
I can’t be faded… and Black Girl
your purple plum lips are where
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I’m home.
Your purple plum lips are where
I’m home.
Your purple plum lips are where
I’m home.
I can’t be faded… Black Girl
they cure everything I ail of, mm-hmm…
I’m no fool
understand boo
truth is I’m going out.
Where that’s vague, I’ll illuminate
there’ll be no doubt.
All I need’s that funky bunkus
and your boo pout.
When it’s down, getting downer
I’ll go the southern route.
yes it happens
they be crappin’ all on my style.
Shit is life’s
veneer appears, so I let that shit slide.
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Good is relative
what the hell I give
‘bout what they say.
It’s out and out
gone be a blessed day.
I can’t be faded.
and Black Girl
your purple plum lips are where
I’m from.
Your purple plum lips are where
I’m from.
Your purple plum lips are where
I’m from.
I can’t be faded… Black Girl
they cure everything I ail of, mm-hmm...
Trade the present
for the past, make it last and then
never forget where you’re from again.
Douse the flames of slavery’s shame
that’s true salvation.
Don’t stay heated and defeated
it’s not christal clear.
But when clothed humble of soul
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no, you’re never naked.
That’s raw dough I’m giving you
say that you’ll bake it.
When you’re sane
claim similar-same
everyone needs a muse.
Never hot-headed, no ruby redded,
her cold calm purple I choose.
Brothas don’t lust-
that booty, truth appreciates.
Thought I’d share w/you
a better view- but it’s not hate.
If you see us decently
maybe they’ll follow suit.
Cuz the industry
ain’t out to be fam to you.
Decency’s the way to be.
But there’s the okey-doke.
Carnal things have a place
being that we all were born.
So she’s cute, you want the boots.
She’s from an African tree-
Yes but the goal, when she so swoll
that’s be a (true) whole family.
[Refrain Played Out, mm-hmm…]
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23.
A World Without Sin.
Dark dirty soil
and used motor oil.
Dark purple tulips
and when I kiss you lips.
Women so beautiful
they make me sing
those are a few of my favorite things.
Dark pitch black night skies.
Dark spoken goodbyes.
Hips free of binding
and thick but cut french fries.
Telling of returns of much better days
she'll find me suitable, I'll feel so
blessed then.
And we’ll sing: A World Without Sin.
And we’ll sing: A World Without Sin.
And we’ll sing: A World Without Sin.
All that brings: A World Without Sin.
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Hellos’ of mellows’
and lives with no lying.
Skipping the first
and by third try deciding.
Understand 'anyway' is
indiscriminant.
Specify 'one way'
that’s without doubt best.
Those who know say
the humble just won’t get up.
They say that we’re satisfied
to sit on our butts.
True.
Yes but, truth will get up to tell it’s tale.
So do we humbly situated as well.
Big money
is neither a pay-off nor insult.
It’s life’s true by-product or a life
well lived result.
It can free Brown and Black people
of their chains.
But, don't sell out, don't give up and
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don't buy in.
Universe dark
but accepting light within.
Us Blacks we’re dark
but there’s light beneath our skins.
So benighted skin and belighted
within.
& there will exist a world without sin.
When White’s blight’s extinguished
all family, no friends
then there will exist a world without sin.
And we’ll sing: a world without sin.
And we’ll sing: a world without sin.
And we’ll sang: a world without sin.
All that brangs: a world without sin.
mm-hmm. mm-mm. hmm-mm. hmm.
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My Fantasy.
If I've told you once
yes as it happens girl
I've told you twice.
Although unseen
within all nightmares
there's a light that shines.
Yes but, believe
heart on my sleeve
boo out and out past doubt.
Only ruddy fools
are crippled and blue
in the ides of spilled milk-
but I've found.
Where the waters, flow in streams...
the rains
cool a sun stroked land, it appears...
the ultra-purple of a sun not hurtful
beckons and strengthens me.
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Where woman and man, they
understand the plan, that's my fantasy.
Yes but listen…
You say you know
but knowing is a lie of speculation.
When you understand
you figure with substantiation.
Yes but it happens
the truth is a thing we see as foreign-
When it rains it pours
and a lot more I feel like going…
Where the waters flow in streams...
the rains
cool a sun stroked land and it’s greens…
the ultra-purple of a sun not hurtful
beckons & strengthens me—
where woman & man they
understand the plan— that’s my fantasy.
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New or old scene
get a inkling
and then you will find out.
Which of you
I'll keep when through
and which I'll do without.
Understand I love both
flames bank don't stoke
no it's not christal clear.
It's our excursion
and I'm certain
I'd rather be there than here.
Where the waters flow in streams...
the rains
cool a sun stroked land, it appears...
the ultra-purple of a sun not hurtful
beckons and strengthens me—
Where woman and man they
understand the plan— that's my fantasy.
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25.
Better Late Than Never I.
Well I wonder as I wander
this maze of mine...
If I can find my way back
to me in time.
I hear the crowd.
All the world is a stage.
Childhood rehearsals cut and
reversals end as we age.
Yes but, better late than never
doesn't mean...
trading peace for a piece of a dream.
Reaching back, we test time.
yes but then there's fate...
Froward be goward & truth be known
can't beat yesterday.
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Some say, 'now or never'.
Yes but, late can be better
and beats not at all.
So, gone head give me some lip.
I'll feel better equipped
we’ll break down those walls.
Oh. So. Now I lay you down
but before we pray.
Let's understand one another
I want you to be
the mother of all I make.
I mean it and without doubt.
Hold it down when you shout...
A calm place is where we'll go.
What's at stake be the way we relate
that’s what makes us love simpatico.
Better late than never doesn't mean...
trading peace for a piece of a dream.
Since nothing lasts forever
then never can’t be as bad as they say.
Me? I say ‘shit’
& quit it if it comes after I turn the page.
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Yes
but better late than never
doesn’t mean…
trading peace for a piece of a dream
Well I wonder as I wander
this maze of mine...
If I can find my way back to me—
it takes time.
I've seen the light
but I've none of my own.
And that's what I need
so that I can compete,
get out and make my bones.
yes but listen…
better late than never doesn't mean...
trading your peace of mind
for a piece of a dream.
better late than never doesn’t mean…
trading Allah’s peace of mind
for a piece of a dream.
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26.
Maybe.
Maybe now baby
its better you and I part...
But then again girl...
Maybe the beginning
be the best place to start.
Be down I'm 'bout it
like a maoist, but...
Maybe I'm just hoping
where all hope is gone...
But better late than never
can we endeavor to make love lastlong?
Indecision
has no place in the vision of a man
Knowledge made him such a fool.
Boo you helped him understand.
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Talk is cheap.
Silence is cheaper...
or doesn’t cost more.
Why are these the only things
it appears that we can afford.?.
Call me nuts now baby
but if maybe we stayed
there'd be other sparks...
yes but listen,
who needs a spark's blaze outside of
what we're feeling in our hearts...
Light shines within, true.
Even when, boo
we're out walking in the dark...
Call it what you will but call it now
and without doubt we'll have won.
yes but listen...
there's no fate.
Just what we make of our hand...
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truth is this is for your cool...
Every argument we had.
Some things just don't mean a thing.
They're there and that's just that.
Yes but somethings do.
Our love's the truth.
It means a lot and it’ll last...
Maybe it sounds crazy
But some days I swear I miss the pain...
I been so thirsty for your voice
I swear I hear it every time it rains...
Maybe what we're left is right
and all we think is right is wrong...
Yes but listen,
just lip kissin’ up not down -is the norm.
kick down a frown when you feel down
the proper opening, baby, is formed…
Many underrate it or equate it
with a hot summer day's shade and
We'll be feeling better 'bout it.
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Boo true, it will without doubt fix
All that we be ailing of
break it down, let up above
do what it do until it's done—
That's when finally we’ll have won.
It's chilly.
Yeah I feel it.
Turn the heat on don’t just get your coat.
This can't be our move:
times get hard boo
Yes but, we must keep out the cold.
Maybe now baby. Maybe now baby.
Maybe now baby. Maybe now baby.
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27.
More for Your Money.
She had a
more for your money smile.
A more for your money style.
Get her alone?
And it be most well worth
a brothas while.
Standing at the end of a dark bar
and I seen
that booty boomin' so loud swear I
heard it scream.
So I took her to my humble home.
In no time flat she jumped my bone.
Took me from bank trump
to satisfied but with outstanding loans.
Musta seen me comin' what a woman,
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too much.
In hindsight? Yeah I'd take her back
And you know for what.
Her love was low but a lot.
She'd give back what she got.
A deadly serious type...
with something mean deep inside.
Thought I'd tame her
couldn't blame her
for what she'd been through
made her such an evil lady be el zaboo.
She had a
more for your money face.
Lips of bitter evil grace.
If I had my choice? With her I'd
populate the human race.
Thoughts flyin' through my mind
of the kind you might think.
Thought, 'Yeah. She one strange freak
but won't quit on me.
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Her love was on a shelf.
Trusted nothing but herself.
She was pure evil. Be el za beeble.
The Devil's straight kin elf.
Thought I'd tame her.
Couldn't blame her
for all that she’d seen.
But she's upwardly mobile
and ain't feelin' a local like me.
____________
Benighted skin. Belighted in.
That's all I wanted to tell her: the end.
If she'd just... remember that?
Evil would be nothing more see
than the way she act.
______________
She had a
more for your money smile.
A more for your money style.
Marry the girl?
Your tribulations come before the trial.
She was standing
in pair of super low stretch jeans.
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With a
'Love don't impress me'
look
'but get at me if it's green'.
She had a
more for your money walk.
A more for your money talk.
So I got down.
But shoulda knowd she'd up and
leave me broke.
She was riding the fence
when I met her
and not feeling her own skin.
Her choice: believe a lasting love
or the hype of friends.
She had a
more for your money smile.
A more for your money style.
Think a divorce?
you'd lose it all even before you file.
She liked me
so she let me keep my favorite stuff.
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But took my fuzzy dice:
the car and house wasn't enough.
Well that's a more for your money
sista for you, nice.
Yes but that's my kind:
horseshit aside.
A grape Kool Aid super fine looker type.
Her too much was just enough...
sexy voice and the way she sang.
She was my favorite food:
pot roast, burnt french toast and deep
fried, cold, chicken wangs.
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28.
Be By Your Side /
My Boo & Her Smile.
You're the last on my mind
at night and that face?
Is the first I want to see
when the down breaks.
You're the end of a lifetime journey
and what's more?
The beginning of a winning I could never
afford...
When heat of hatred
in the matrix
is a day in the life?
I bask in your shade,
the cold calm of your eyes.
Give and get's the better bet
no, it's not do or die...
but it can seem to be where less of me
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I'm giving at times.
Its no big problem:
yeah boo
people argue & people fight.
But all I want to dos
get down with you & be by your side…
my boo and her smile...
You give…
Everything I want & I give it all back
You’re everything I need
Ah, boo ain’t nothing you lack.
So, take me further
undergirder of all of my plans.
You’re the woman that I need
& I’m glad to be your man...
It’s no big problem:
Yes boo
people argue & people fight.
But all I want to dos
get down with you & be by your side…
my boo & her smile…
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30.
Better a Fool for Love not Money.
Thought you made a fool of me
and girl you were right.
But better a fool for love not money.
Yeah,
honey love's check just bounced tonight.
You said
your love was that black diamond
that everlasting
would sparkle in my life.
But,
your cut glass ass just wasnt meant to last.
Step like you know girl get outta my sight.
Better a fool for love than money.
The money's hard to get back.
Better a fool for love than money.
So baby boo best watch how you act.
Better a fool for love than money.
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Understand that's a fact.
Better a fool for love than money.
You ain't Jill and hell naw I ain't Jack.
You told your friends
that I was crazy in love with you:
that it was just a matter of time.
Well love has been known
to make a grown man foolish
but Cupid never again
ain't gone make a brotha blind.
So now you're trying hard to figure
how I knew
that you never ever meant me no good.
Well let me tell you
Allah ain't never ever liked ugly.
When there’s a Jinn in your mix?
Man, best bet’s knock on wood.
Better a fool for love than money.
The money's hard to get back.
Better a fool for love than money.
So baby boo best watch how you act.
Better a fool for love than money.
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Understand that's a fact.
Better a fool for love than money.
You ain't Jill and hell naw I ain't jack.
Yep. Yep.
I was a fool for love,
but that’s all you got.
& by the way girl:
maybe you learned a lot.
You been bought & sold
You shoulda watched the polls
I’m getting by so why settle for a upset ho.
Love’s just a little too expensive today.
You toyed with my heart
without being allowed to play.
Thought you’d leave me heart-broke
Without a dime, thought you was clever.
Sorry (Sorry) Nope (Nope) Never.
Thought you'd made a fool of me.
But girl you were wrong.
So I shed a few tears but now I've
bounced back baby.
Patience has its reward I'm mos def
standing strong.
I'm past the rose colored lenses
and offenses you brought me.
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I'm past the blues you brought too.
More than that let me tell you...
I'm light years way past loving you (or, at
least getting there).
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31.
Much As Possible.
Much as possible.
It's plausible.
It's what you got a closet full.
You say that that's some
horse & bull
when I say I love you.
I'm no extremist.
I get squeamish
with too much of anything it's
just when
I'm at home with you & me?
that's all I'd want a love to be...
Much as possible.
Never too much.
Much as possible.
All I'd need is your touch.
Much as possible.
What ever goes down —the key?
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is much as possible:
I'll love you you love me.
Much as possible.
It's rational.
Go out & get your gat (some would).
Wool over your eyes they will pull
with the words 'I love you'.
I'm no extremist
but appears it's
revelry you want from me it's
better love within your means.
Too much? It ruins everything.
Much as possible.
Just trust your boo.
Much as possible.
& I'll trust you.
Much as possible.
What ever happens the key?
is much as possible.
I'll love you you love me.
When you love? best bet you bet
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your life.
Love's a round mound
deep down.
It's not a knife.
Make enough money?
Life gets funny.
Don't make much sense
but she's going with me...
As long as our pockets are
fat with love?
that’s all that a brotha is focused on
Stay down
or
at least getting there.
Stay Black
you won't lose me don't be scared.
We'll be...
Much as possible.
It's feasible.
It's tickle taunt & teasible.
I'm needy & you're needable.
Just that basic’ly or nothing more.
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When it's not happening
it's going down.
Yes but listen, I’ll be around.
I'm no extremist
but the end?
When that's extreme?
I'm not offended.
& she can cook: check out them greens.
I follow her: & she follow me.
Bless your heart
but bottom line
nothing beats a trial but a failure in life
give me…
Much is possible. Never too much.
Much as possible.
All I need is your touch.
Much as possible.
What ever goes down
the key?
is much as possible.
I'll. Love. You. You. Love. Me.
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32.
Out There Mass / Othermass.
It was
the night before Christmas
and I was tuned out.
Christ-Lucifer's sanguine
exiled from my house.
Red and pink buried in the depths of hell:
hotheaded emotions of warring, as well.
No hot sauce on food to turn our lips red.
Nor to give us red liver spots...
turning us White as they spread.
Out there mass be that time
purple people relax and chill out.
w/gifts of purple, black and brown
found strewn throughout the house.
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A rebelrous event
that anticipates with harkening...
a return of seasons
where the days be darkening.
Black's flag of violet, black & brown
draped on an evergreen.
A better holiday is not clear
for Black people to find Black meaning.
Othermass we respeck twice yearly. From
the outset of the summer solstice, 6.21. to
6.26. of a given year & from the outset of
a winter solstice, 12.21. to 12.26. of a given
year. It respecks those dates because they
also represent a return or rebirth of
Islams Mudhe Savior & Jesus (no Christ),
they respective of a stark darkening of
seasons followed by a sunlit brown brite-
ning of seasons.
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the Black Pledge.
I pledge allegiance to basic blackness.
I'll bury all lies
and accept all universal factness.
I'll extend a hand & hold down the truth.
Once ascertained, found out, deduced.
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33.
We're East. They're West.
We're east. They're west.
We're hips. They're waste.
Mean of me maybe, but there be...
parameters with being free.
No, you can't do any old thing.
We're east. They're west.
They're cursed. We're blessed.
But until we understand that truth...
we will lose, cursed and forsooth.
I'm slow but not dead, I'm alive.
And when I wake you'll realize...
We're east. They're west.
We're pyramids. They're less.
We built from bottom, better means
of living, loving, doing things.
They Trickled-Down
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& lost their ass.
Their stocks,
their bonds-
everything that lasts.
We're east. They're west.
We're same race. They're same sex
We chill. They rage.
Tell me—_who belongs in a cage?
Yes but east be from and west is to.
Of mind—
where will you go when through?
Low-tech trumps hi, so let's return.
And when we do? no flames, they’ll burn.
We're east. They're west.
We heal. They fetch.
They're Jake. We're Boo.
They get high. We get low.
We survive and fashionably.
They are simply in the way.
Irresistible their force.
But immovable, we be their source.
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They can't live with or without us.
Let them die—_we've had enough.
North South East & West enslaved us.
To words
which describe no hips thighs or butts.
Identity lost
we gave in & gave up.
They made us hate our name—
Black is Negus, Nigga.
Flip and reverse their directions,
all the words and stuff.
Keep an exogenous mind,
so that you think outside the box.
Extegrate
dont integrate into their flaming house.
Understand
that African north is really south.
Black Woman. Black Man.
It’s past time that we spoke out.
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We're east. They're west.
They’re hell’s slaves;
We’re pearadise’s free men.
The righteous are wicked.
They heatedly rise.
They make mischief, yes but listen
don’t panic, they invariably die.
Leftists laying low
are chilled out and most just,
those dynamics they survive & thrive
they coalesce & they muster.
The right is strange & wrong, this is seen.
The left is good & strong, get hips.
A better way is just not clear.
We’re east. They’re west.
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34.
Aiolet.
Africans
had an affinity
for the pyramids.
We'd breed
Body & mind
Society— that behind
like the pyramids.
Garvey gave us
red black & green.
Yes but
when truth be told?
redneck red is obscene.
It along with blue eyes?
is DNA foul.
If Garvey was alive
he'd give us #melanin's
violet black & brown.
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Get down.
Get down.
with melanin: violet black & brown.
Get down. Yes understand
Violet is the Aiolet of pyramids.
Africans
had the melanin
that kept us alive.
We built all civilization.
Then through slavery with bravery
we survived & thrived.
Allah made us
to keep the gate shut.
Don't let them out.
No not out of the bottle
this jinnie we've coddled, far too long.
Get down
Get down
with melanin: violet black & brown.
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Get down
Yes understand
Violet is the Aiolet of pyramids.
Get down
Get down
with melanin violet black & brown.
Get down
Yes understand
violet is shaped entirely like pyramids.
Violet is Aiolet.
Red is Ved— it’s inversion.
One is the light.
One is the lie.
Guides to paradise or to hell incursion.
Exversion,
Excursion & Blacklight Immersion
Save us from them & ourselves.
Heat rises & dies.
Chill stays grounded, survives.
Fact or lie?
Truth between: choose well.
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35.
Better Being /
Down with the Grapes.
Why.
Do you wonna die?
Young Black man...
Young Black woman, too.
Yes, I see you.
I know where you're at
& what you're going through.
Do for one another-
that's what's the thing to do
but still you choose to
Die.
Naw, it's not the weed or wine.
Not when Yankees drink
& still they livin to see 25.
Why's the best you feel you can do
is 'survive'?
Truth is
prosperity's a road:
that goes just where you drive.
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Nose & shoulder to the grindstone
find your way home
& you survive, get by & thrive.
But why do you live to die?
Young Black man.
Young Black woman, too.
Two young super fools.
Could it be
too many times you've seen...
the heart break
& failing of your mama's
& your daddy's dreams...
Did someone tell you it's too late?
Was lovin you too hard than easy hate?
Did what resolve you have… up &
disapate? I've been there. I can relate.
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Do you know
Why.
Knowing why won't do a thing.
Yes but listen.
When you understand that?
the prince will be a king…
You'll fight to be together &
never disrespect your queen…
w/basic Blackness ever your guide
your eyes will be so far seeing…
Yes the future is unclear
but you see through them
& that's their fear...
That you outdo for you
until done & they just disappear…
Yes but it appears by my lights
With all your being & seeing?
stay down with the Grapes I’m giving...
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36.
Black Light.
Black Light.
It gives life.
To all things that be.
Black Light.
Strengthen sight.
Bones & Biology.
Ultraviolet. Melanitus.
Seratonin & Dopamine.
Our coordination
is what they gave us—
but them yanks can’t find the beat.
I heard them.
In Ferguson.
They called us ‘monkeys’ & all.
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In Charlottesville.
I’d had my fill.
They called us ‘movement
from the bowels’.
Well, I AM the shit.
But that’s not what
they meant.
But when we fertilize
that ground?
They ain’t
complainin’
or abstainin’—
they eat the shit
that grows out.
From the seeds we sow…
the trees we grow…
the leaves we blow…
from the grass we mow…
From mud to shit…
the Black Light gives it…
Gives man the life he lives…
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His woman all her kids.
Black Light.
It gives life-
to all things that be.
Black Light.
Strengthen Sight.
Bones & Biology.
Ultraviolet. Melanitus.
Seratonin & Dopamine.
Our coordination.
Is what they gave us.
still them yanks can’t find the beat.
Sat down…
Checked out a dictionary…
It said,
‘Black’s foul’— that’s so sick.
Held back, then said to myself,
‘When is they gone quit?’
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tellin’ White Lies
about
the Black Light:
Infrared’s dead & purple lives.
The red-white nation?
Is a contagion.
Purple - Blackness all life gives.
From the seeds we sow…
the trees we grow…
the leaves we blow…
from the grass we mow…
from mud to shit…
the Black Light gives it…
Gives man the life he lives…
His woman all her kids…
Black Light.
It gives life. To all things that be.
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Black Light.
Strengthen Sight.
Bones & Biology.
Ultraviolet. Melanitus.
Seratonin & Dopamine.
Our coordination.
Is what they gave us.
still them yanks can’t find the beat.
Black Light.
It gives life.
To all things that be.
Black Light.
Strengthen Sight.
Bones & Biology.
Ultraviolet. Melanitus.
Seratonin & Dopamine.
Our orientation.
Is what they gave us.
But them yanks a bunch of freaks.
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37.
Winning.
When you’re winning?
there’s no beginning or ending.
To & from to get it done:
that’s your only mission.
Yes but,
‘why’ I ask am I
& I don’t wonna admit it—
told ‘V for ‘Victory’
beats ‘A for ‘Ass’ that I’m kickin?
Win or lose— it’s the same.
When you choose— cash or fame.
Put your money where your mouth
be & bruh, don’t be a lame.
The fade of fame it inflames.
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Ruddy ridiculous games.
but,
cash chills out & on that route?
Holds you down & keeps you sane.
When you’re winning?
No up or down you’re between it.
Yes but, get down or you proceed:
the one that carries your interest.
There’s fruit & root.
You can eat both.
There they are on a platter.
Yes but,
from one there comes the other—
Choose the former or latter.
Winning’s no skin off my lips.
Winning’s darkness of Egypt.
Winning’s fact without a tip.
Guzzle it or take a dip - sip.
Choose one way. Bury the other.
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Word to fathers & the mothers.
They’re the ones that run the race.
Rase children even when late.
When you’re winning.
No up or down— comprehend it.
My name is Bennet.
I’m not in it.
I’m just watchin’ y’all spinnin’
Not doin’ too bad.
Gave what I’d had.
I get better by the minute.
Out of the fire
you desire—
yes but watch out for the fry - pan.
When you’re winning?
You get down or front pretending.
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I’m gone get down.
Front away clown—
Ain’t no way you can defend it.
I’m gone get out you stay in though
if you suppose you are winning.
My aspirations
last long past your inspiration’s
extinction.
That’s winning.
Maybe you learned something—
& since
what we’d want is understanding,
I’ll give. Maybe you’ll get it.
Give it back to those who lack—
I’m one of those must admit it.
Love Respect. Reciprocity:
Those two will do & I’m finished.
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Winning’s
no meat off my hips.
Winning’s
a deep groovey dip.
Winning’s
no scraped knee— when scrappin’:
when not going down then its hapnin.
It’s not clear but what I’d say’s,
‘burn out the night
burn out the day’.
Winning is the smallest part ⁒
broad you end, broad never start ⸫
[winning :: played out]
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the End.
Get Going. Build.