I love my grandmother, Melba Burgos!

Abuelita abuelita no llore mas

Abuelita abuelita en su vida praying for paz

How did you feel before getting on that avion

English weak but your faith strong as back bearing jibaro burden

Decade after decade world turning always towards sunny manana

Hustle your way through factorias

Sowing lace luxury undergarments by day

By night open and shut down the Copa

Una mujer en la ciudad

Bailando until breakadawn

Ritmo mas profundo makes you sing along

Release all that pena each song

Large family in small apartments

Dreams squeezed into roach motel railroad

Prewar buildings born for arson insurance

Drama kept you moving

Hard to preach Que Pasa Power

When children are starving

Cornflakes with water

Ketchup sandwich bacalaito for breakfast

Yucca for dinner

May the Lord be with you always

We feeble fellow sinners

Don’t pass judgement on next brother

Who knows when emptiness will be fulfilled

Grandma’s hands crotchet Lares flag

Collecting dust in back of closet

Let tumbleweeds push past parched desert

Constant conversation with Dios

From your blessed mouth to beloved ears

On your side no boogieman to fear

Except monsters you been created

Image of Beetlejuice don’t say name 3 times

Appear instantly behind bad memories

Distraction is contagious

Top of head to bottom of toes

Become your holy gospel before eyes close

Shielding you from hood frights

City skyline in broken distance

Bedroom looking at Rikers Riverside

Harlem State building to Empire

Hardwired to hold on to hope

Kiss your bony knuckles to knock out negativity

Followed by heavenly trinity

Sunrise to midnight

Echandolo Pa’lante never polite

Your smile is a kite

Flying from highest cascada en el Yunque

Able to see Guzman Abajo

And look up at confianza constellations

Forever watching

Reclamar

Back amongst origins exploring again

Discovered old journals

Handwriting hasn’t improved

Barely legible hardly forgettable

So many nights still trying to understand

What’s already been said

This is not to make friends

Along red cracked ground

How does the view sound

80 year old trees

Whistle with hood bochinche

Who got locked dropped copped

Chopped stopped

Where did imagination go?

Nobody plays on the block unless

You got kicked out with nowhere else to be

Except dribble on a dry patch

Couldn’t catch the cloud

If they throw bombs onions in your wax gear

Wish I could be tough enough to survive a shot

Body and brain begin soul transition to otherside

Where you look back from old photos

Only revisited when they remember

Death anniversary and birthday

All the inbetweens hopefully had some

Laughter tears scars

Drifting out in the stars distant universe

Like your multi purpose

Electronic supersonic hood

Just like CPG except you live for infinity

Time beyond distance

If we was all perfect

There would be no wrinkles grey hairs

Missing teeth lumps where ain’t supposed to be

Eating preservatives

Run around the park

Get a couple laps to keep up that youth

Spoiled sitting on manmade carcass

Cold case still throbbing mobbing with sadness

No time for relaxing

Keep pushing no simple spaces lovely curves

More ugly words proverbs and psalms

Controlled remotely by robot making you digital

Supreme mind of knowledge criminal

Bless you until vegetable

Are you letting you?

Go how you screaming

Bless you salud dinero amor

HAGALO POR FAVOR

Divine only helps

Those who help themselves

you already wearing your costume

What type of terror

Exist in murky blood puddles

Fangs dripping off flesh of fools

Talking live zombies at thriller video shoot

Past midnight when freaks been out getting faded

Sunshine cause vampires to hibernate

Put on a scream mask and sit in shadows waiting for next victim

Predictable outcome brother dies early

White girl is saved

Couple shouldn’t have snuggled

Surprising villain

Light snuff film

Sadistic psychotic within your optic

Locked in fantasies of massacre for times

Invisible bullies attacking you

Mosquito drones are tracking you

Metadata conquers metaphysical

Mediocre typical brainwashed leeches

Frogs jumping up down block

Spiders crawling snakes slither

Ravens cry never more

All a part of savage ghetto picture

Black white moody greys

Hissing radiators

Creeking doors

Who is out to get me

Demons and devils waiting whenever you ain’t ready

Eyeballs creep roll to slow focus

Teeth chatter from misty frio

Cono compai que lio

Trapped

Without mystery machine or Scooby doo

Proverbial creep standing middle of deserted road

Lonely barrio with nowhere to go

Wasteland destroyed

Infrastructure damaged population

Controlled by government concentration

One channel clear media manipulation

No escaping matrix unless you conquered fear

Used as fuel for survival

Hope is vital

Faith is necessary

Love is revolutionary

When confronting scary cold planet

Time to be action hero

With horror movie script you been handed

Improvise inspiration memorize motivation

Tomorrow depends on saints and angels collaboration

Got God’s army prepared to bang out with Satan

Convinced 85ers he doesn’t exist

Easy to ignore evil

Peace and positivity belongs to the people

Righteousness will always triumph over wrong

Whenever you shook

You must resolve your foundation to be strong

my pillow

Possessive

Don’t let your son run away

Hold him tight against chest

Until he tells you

It’s time to walk

Learning to talk

Comes first with a set of demands

Divine can lift you vertical

Keep marching towards horizon

Enterprising your energy

Vida is endless entropy

Letting dust settle

Before rising to next level

Volume surrounds whispers echo

Streetlights give

Glamorous shine to glorious ghetto

Scream at the sky

While walking over a bridge

Learn from subconscious

Give you instructions how to live

Gratitude determines your aptitude

Can’t complain if you slacking to lean

Can hardly dream if you only accept reality

Worth can’t be equated with salary

Cut the calories

Trim fat from diet

Please try it don’t fight it

Protector when patrolling playgrounds

Possible peligros

Stuck in same exact spot

Only thing changing is scenery

Same rock and tree keep passing on loop

Hasty pursuits

Faith can make you faster

All those accomplishments might gas you

Agree with your affirmations

Cultivate creative

Don’t let propaganda alter your native

Hold love in your hands

Don’t let anyone ever take it 

Hood Teacher Haikus

Affirmation Hood Teacher Haikus

Tell yourself each day

You are beautiful for real

Don’t lie believe it

Waiting for moments

Where your life can be frozen

Holding onto past

Crumbs on the page means

You writing some good tasty

Meals make sure there’s soul

Tired achy limbs

Pulsing throbbing joints sore cold

Massage the pain gone

I can’t give up on

A child who never had love

Each class a chance TEACH!

Young boys want to be

Spitting images of papa

Except he left THUG

caliente en las calles

Right around corner from the spot

Don’t let sensations be ephemeral

Handle your business

Sun reflects hood fantasies of going jamon

Crispy skin juicy flesh

Sweat breathes to release

Be careful who you swap spit with

Anyone who got a brandnew comeup

Who is this blowing up jack

Getting smacked where you laughed and played

Quickly young days pass

When in doubt say no

Have rights against self incrimination

How clean are your prints

State of art probation

In and out clean smooth

Sat stuck while world was dancing around you

Soak skyline while time allows

Ducks to cross river coasts

Rebrand the hood before developers invade

Thuggish soldier status

May keep crackers at bay

Beware; trademark and copywrite

Each good idea before it becomes a tshirt

Cup or bumper sticker

Can’t make up or choose family

Somehow exists organically

Headed towards another circle around sun

Looking for a better spot to fish

Even most gutter granite titerre

Got a plan for reformation

Can show prospects of brighter mananas

Mission statement should be

Forever sustainable legacy left behind

Indelible baked salmon lunch special

Indisposable cursed first impressions

Kept a great mask grinning genuine

Hidden pathologies inevitable sickness

Passed from generation

Clean slate

Remain dusty customers

In pursuit of barrio bliss for Borinqueneers

Gold streets promised

Never delivered

apathy

Prayer For Passive Resistance

            After Charles Mingus

So lazy I barely move

So lazy I barely move

When I get nothing

I got a bad attitude

So tired I fall asleep

So tired I fall asleep

Don’t know I’m fatigued

When I hardly reach

So angry my temper steams

So angry my temper steams

Lord I need self motivation

To work on my dreams

So push me to be better

So push me to be better

Been raining so long

Sun will shine

When I get it together

Grateful Instead

No thanks for old favors

Chessboard magnets for bad attention

No strategies freestyles fate

Every action feels like ain’t

Any disclaimer means just what you said

Pigs prowl like predators

Sucker jive slick senator

Exchange dope for hope

Elders grow lonely seek company

Smoke traces same spots

Been traveled in circles

Just to get back to where we already seen

Always on the move

Used your last no more

Find another empty space to be around

What have we recovered

Every word uttered sounds like same topic

Context can change your communion

Unseen documentary like tinted windows

Won’t let you see inside

Hard to provide

When you won’t switch  habits leading to decline

No rewind button barely make tapes to record

What have you loaded up

Folded up tiny bits of wrinkled paper

Can’t wait on the next individual to get mind right

Never allowed to take flight

Wasn’t given proper clearance

Call it whatever you want

Get green light and go

Why are you waiting

Satan resembles blue and whites following you

Asking you where you headed

Cuffs before ID back of cars with no rights

Still wounded haven’t fully healed

Just because you can’t name it

Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist

Must be relentless in search of oasis

Script already written

How committed are you to your own breath

Past won’t let you forget

Black bruises on soul

Tried to fancy it up with dunks

Never can fake funk

Even wife will tell you

Glands excrete pestilence

Focus images

Trim your language

All natural local truth is free

Use enough to scheme another day

Adding up to prosperous future

Para Los Padres

Fathers’ Day Weekend 2013

Throwback isolation 4 walls
At your request for a moment to breathe

Cloudy emotions mixed up mental
Everyday celebrates your wonderful blessings

Just be thankful for all you got
in two blinks all that positivity can stop

Trips around origins signifies you been
Going in circles

Looking for what been lost
Cost of otherside fork
Too much you could never handle

Easy to ramble about close calls
Tight gambles house always wins
Easy to get locked on couch
Never head out
Even though beautiful days await

Hope you have been given foundation
Begin life’s legacy of healthy memories
Rising steadily overflow eye dams

Drip down invisible masks no livable past
Painful present with fatalistic future

Nurture opposite of pessimistic visions
Release your demons to escape
Lonely prisons

You will be able to hold your son’s hand tighter

Please gather the strength to become a better man
Lover scholar fighter
Soldier rock comforter role model

Not another so called leader whose message rings hollow
Years later no solid reflection to follow

Don’t run from your responsibility
Embrace the challenge

Amari wants to learn from you
Give him proper guidance

For thriving not just simple survival
Your presence and energy is vital

Be of sound mind healthy body developing soul
Forever in control aware of your surroundings

Keep good company proudly introduce your people
Don’t let your honorable history be a burden
A mystery allows you to turn from prior mistakes

Triumphs stand tall
Never slump chump

Essence got so much funk ritmo
Shake that good foot

Jump to grab a star from the sky to light up the earth
Cada cabeza es un mundo

Found my connection to multiverse
Keeping love in constant rotation

Your truest smile
Demonstrates infinite worth

Sale ahorita

Can never leave

Anticipation of too much to come

Want a part of the action

Even though bell ringing

I’m still here searching working on a masterpiece

Won’t cast a jinx black cloud

Trademarked frownys scowl across brown triangle

Love peace happiness

Bulldozed rose bush

Remember EVERYTHING you can

For time remaining

How much more explaining does divine

Has to remind you on daily

No failing admitting shortcomings long goings

Carrying dropping logs

Science building less destroying

Employing abilities in tune with faculty

Streak of independence

Abolish referendum asking you for more freedom

Seeking royalty within reflection

Please don’t get too twisted

So your movements are impaired

Life is dark project stairs

Where everyone stares at the ground

Sky is too bright

Even hurts to look at your shadow

Pour a gallon of your regret in the gutter

So you could regurgitate all the hate

Painful poison numb your own noise

Complex symphony glorious ghetto imagery

Broken hearted window symmetry

Jagged dagger sympathy

Grand dragon government wizardry

Hunger howl til echoes in brain

Heavy steady burden higher burning

Halfway learning leads to weak application

Wandering while rambling

Unfocused mission statement

Copy that carbon footprint

Matching unique finger

Be the suit not that hanger

Make the beat write the song

Construct a banger top pop chart

Chopped slopped

Spark after screw rolled a lil loose

Almost like a lil space in noose

Slight dash of lies with harsh truth

Candles won’t provide proper wattage

Only back to essence origin

Where we all started

Individual to collective

Stark difference illustrate perspective

Color shades dimensions

All the jails our minds kept in

Isolated direction

Without opportunity to network

Make connections

Look in eyes to acknowledge existence

Absolute miracles we are still living

Lift a glass burn for those gone

We always mourn but

Celebrate a chance to smile and laugh

Funny how fast our magical lives pass

Smack City

Smacked lifted

charged up non pg 13 version of explicit life

turn off lights but keep electricity flowing

enough to return in one piece

to explain origin of debauchery

taught to see stranger danger

as they plot long range

hard to rearrange pieces to fractured skull

when push pull factors have been negated

frustrated gentrification creeper faster

than dust on face hard to run race

when every move is watched

who is forgotten when only faded mural remains

emptiness riding on desolate train

kids gone blown past curfew

stuck molly in butthole

still channel surfing bad girls club

gangland teen mom

ring alarm media brainwashed youth

metaphysical parody oppression psychological

grey clouds pits stink smell

like harsh truth light henny

an existential abyss

doing more pullups than pushdowns

upchuck purging poisons

add antipathy for cold antipasto of apathy

laugh at our own demise

complicit with early ending

far from happy

good doctor said peace is absence of tension

backedup rage won't let page turn

when mirror reflects blank stares

gave 2 thumbs up for instant approval

stark perusal at bleak record on repeat

gravitational pull falling apart from center

half was a mistake

other you don't remember

brown skin baby...

Because you are brown

You were born in a trap

Set whenever you attempt

To obtain your freedom

Looking like a new book

New friends new mind

Trap says you can’t do it

You are not smart enough

You are not beautiful enough

You are never enough

You believe every doubt

As easily as you eat

Because you are depressed

You don’t even try to smile

Frown at your future

Fall in love with false philosophy

Feel like presence doesn’t matter

So might make self disappear

In a heartbeat

Because you never listened to wind screaming

Your life matters

But only if you love this moment

Make an infinity of right nows

Probably manana

Because you write you have to

Love palabras

Show silence exactly how you feel

Violence tries to kill everything

You already sacrificed

Because you thought twice

In that blink bounced

Better opportunities to build community

You need to start giving more hugs and kisses

Daps and pounds

Attack what attempts to censor your every measure

Gain knowledge wisdom from each lecture

Because you were stuck behind forced to play catch up

Game is over once final buzzer rings

Overtime when successful strategy get applied

Because you are tired too sleepy

To finish the work you have started

Rest in power to dearly departed

Welcome to babies who just arrived

Because you are breathing

Born to survive beyond ghetto existence

Next level constant elder elevation

Because you are loved

You must manifest

Ancient ancestors liberation

Blood humming inside you

Because you are here

You are vital to us

Because you are my familia

You have mi amor and trust

ju heard?

You heard

Dame la botella so we can get right

Pour me a swig so we wavy boi

Pause so I can get a sweet flick

I’ll swing all over the bars

Just to make a public spectacle

No belt

See my sweaty wedgie

Fuck it top 5 who really cares

We doing pole tricks til we get to the city

Watch out

I wanna bust my ass and look foolish

Clueless we dropping liqs everywhere

No respect for NYC

The city shits on me

Why I gotta care for someone else

Once I become major league

Gonna be a guaranteed block party

For everyone each night

I know the hood fucked up like me

Prospects for future all time high

I can get off ten deep on one bluntville

Ain’t nobody got time to be relearning shit

I already forgot

We out to the otherside

To do absolutely nothing

While saying very little

Although we gonna be loud as fuck

Costs to be down with cool kids

Privilege means you got responsibilities

And shit like that

None of them can fulfill

Except eager stereotype

You reject and confirm as you burn

Before during and after school

Lunch never tasted so good

Understand life expectancy of hood

Is hush conversation so consciousness

Camouflaged like cargos carrying nothing

Let’s make it happen

Chasing empty dreams on a path to perdition

In unjust system showtime with street rhythm

Brolic with nonsense to get most attention

Pretending never concerned

But deep down scorned by scars

That won’t heal

Won’t get too deep to reveal

Precise autobiography you don’t deserve

The truth only censored

730 act designed to convince you

Lack of currency urgently hiding

Courage easy to procrastinate

Except you are no longer young

With fewer options

Death has knocked too many times

You never cashed a blank check

Written to you dropped from holy heaven

You don’t believe in self

Much less fake friends

How will you make it

All depends

mira esas caras

Look at those faces

Mira esas caras

El cielo winks and smirks

Got me believing Divine

Had fingers crossed when he was making us

Promises he would eventually keep

Did your hustle add up to enough merit

Gifted and talented status that distances you

From your hood hardly recognizing your roots

You was on the block they discussed in class

And didn’t find any of those pathologies or theories

Cited in academic articles footnoting your faith

Laughed at lectures because professor ideas were all wrongly

Based on faulty research

Patriarchal genocidal white supremacy

Hierarchy fallacy of savage natives

When all they do is take our creation

Wonder why we so impatient

We living on borrowed time

Was loaned Smoking Lovely

Was supposed to return it in two weeks

Overdue charges

Were worth all the bad credit

Need to chill soak in the ocean skin a sponge

Heart a drum to make the waves

Crash against mind’s shore

Memories overflood motivation

Until immobilized watching the movement maintain

While yall were up in VIP

We were behind the velvet rope in the rain

Hoping to shimmy shoulders until sweaty

Shake off ancient oppression lethargic lint

Clinging to static shock as erratic clock

Second hand skips precious few moments to never return

All that privilege low on totem pole

What did weactually learn as the mundo turned

What did we shout to make the world stop spinning

Silent screams won’t deliver destiny

Exclusive 16s might make you platinum

The sun will give you a shout out

Only if you up in time to hear lovely livelification

Don’t let that determination turn drowsy

Beautiful day even if it’s cloudy

Sky said what’s good fuck your frownys

Don’t slide with fiction stay true to your honesty

Any probably should be most definite certainty

Universe has no sense of urgency

But a thunderous cackle at your agonizing absurdity

Mumbling your definition fumbling with your tradition

Bopping on the block please stop bullshitting

It’s raining because Jesus Christ

Crying at how we living

peace chewy, mr. h, biggz, shyne, s gramz, every other shorty.

Yung Boi Swag

How you get fucked up in your own dreams

Fist moving mad slow

Aggy cuz I can’t G mack

One day I want a scar right above my eye

If you go in gotta be hard

No soft punk shit boi

I got that matrix swag

Flipping on these bitches cuz

I’m never cuffin my chat game wavy

Silva surf on dumb smut

For enough brains to make me smart

Sucka wanna front got the ratty on deck

Hammer make your brains spill

Until I catch a victims respect

Street sweeper will clear the block up

Fiends need fresh work for me to chop up

How you figure I’ma get locked up

Nah that’s for stupid dudes trying to get caught

My thoughts is worth millions

Mind built for the highlights of the game

Hood is lame I’m loyal to me

Purpose son is to keep shining and stay free

Young and wild be this way

Forever until infinity

Chill why you trying to play me

Curious about the corner

Don’t try to violate

I’m bout to fix and wash you up real clean

Brolic monster about to go

Funkmaster Flex and HAM on you

Aight then how you feel

Mental mixxy off what I’m sipping

Toxxie my liver finished

They watching too many movies

Trying to be characters

Bootleg on the avenue

Would let you know what the shit

Is about but you ain’t seen it yet

So I don’t wanna blow it up

Don’t hold up roll up

Put your true feelings in the sky

Be real with the mirror so the universe

Will see your honesty clearly

What will be the final verdict

On that exclusive you haven’t even heard it

Hip hop quotables verses hot fire

Enough to melt freezing temperature

In middle of corazon

I will squeeze first then run

peace willie. enjoy exeter.

“You expect the spotlight to be as bright

As the last time you got on stage

But the page flipped

& you got left out the next chapter”

 – Word to everything I love, Willie Perdomo

All your references have been misquoted

Your historical realities have been distorted

Footnotes been found out as false

As your pain emphatically placed between parenthesis

You figured the reading wouldn’t start on time

Fronting to be fashionably late to your own feature

This presentation co sponsored

By doubting Thomas foundation

Your confident culture coalition

Advised by outsiders antagonizing your apathy

Imagined those bright lights to take to bigger cities

Still by the streetlights you haven’t traveled

Beyond the 4 block radius of your hood

Magnus opus magnified by your misfortunes

Misread your own palms           holding on

Instead of letting go       hip hop quotable

Vocal trapped local      waking up everyday in the hood

Just blinking                  you won’t go global

Journals been jogging                no looking back

Lyrics versus spirit on this mission

Make a quick pick                    so you can hit the Mega

peace tony medina

How to Be an American

            After Tony Medina

Adopt the Constitution as your Holy Bible

America Fuck Yeah is your ring tone

Pledge Allegiance to Fox News in HD

The Declaration of Independence was

only kidding about equality

Uncle Sam is always pointing out he wants you!

Captain America and Superman

are the Department of Homeland Security

Speedy Gonzalez and Taco Bell Dog

are your Mexican Idols

All Country and Bluegrass songs

will have Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya remixes

Follow your TV’s instructions

Sell your destiny for discount on Ebay

Have corporations sponsor your body

This synapse has been sponsored by Cisco

Every nipple named after Nextel

Lips provided by Loews’ Cinemas

Eyes reflected by RayBan

Medulla Oblongatta by Microsoft

Air you breathe provided by Apple

Private parts endorsed by Nike Just Do It

Describe all of these brands louder than your last name

Realize the President is more powerful than the Pope

Sell dimebags of democracy downtown

Hustle your halo why are you still holding on?

Consign kilos of confusion

Corner the markets with colonialism

Have a business plan for your beefs

in this day and age

no reason you can’t profit from pain

Buy freedom from the local farmers

but you will find your future in the freezer

right by the rotisseried bald eagle

meat juicy crunchy skin

tasty enough to suck marrow from bones

whether you like your liberation

fried or roasted

back to school

Doce

Shorties are leaning

Barely dreaming

Just moving through the day

Waiting to get to the night

Facing all their frights

As the light grows dimmer

Eating breakfast as dinner

Never feeling a winner

Always called a sinner

Never a saint

Painted pictures are murals

Telling dead homies to rest in power

In final hours just burning sour

With extremely sweet wraps

Entrapped

Show me what you got

And I’ll let you go

Cherries glow under chinky eyes

Never focused on the prize

Promise never delivered

Returned to false hopes

Where bubbles disappear

In foul breeze

Seizing the spirit to pray

Take control of time

Make those moments work for you

Minimum stage

Maximum gain

How will you profit from your pain

Instead of syndicating your shame

Wanna talk to young G’s

Partners are posers

Lames who play same mind games

Nothing left but

To stay brown and grow old

Keep your crown shining

Be brilliant and bold

pause and

Affect

something actual past unrealistic

soul's inspiration will take you past current earth

wanting tomorrow's sky to take you away

leaving on that next plane

just because you played

doesn't mean that you made an impact on the game

bleary eyed but got no reason to be mad

tired haven't comprehended

difficult deadassness of sadness

made a mess of your stresss

never could rise to the standard of success

held back within a harness around your hatred

so impatient could barely wait to levitate

white concrete with chocolate soil underneath

un nino bueno

slowly building heat boiling releasing steam

captured on sweaty windows

put up a guard to find your god

please don't fall out the picture

all scriptures translated for holy gospel

nothing sounds impossible

unless you are out of view

progresando

Stay on task

continue to be proactive towards success

only one standing in your way

is your shadow

can't blame another for your stalled progress

consequence might be immediate or delayed

either way

you must face forward

never behind

2 lights left circling 24 hour deli

toasted sandwiches available

when belly growls

wind howls matches mean mug scowl

owls never close their eyes

white owl cigars make you addicted to more lies

sounding like truth

fast food delivered sloppily

opening  foggy eyes making blue skies seem cloudy

grey dulls sharp shoulders

jagged elbows becoming smooth joints

make up points to project emjambment

allusion to aversion feeling pain in person

still searching for purpose beneath surface

weight on world heavy burden on delicate back

we all have many theories

how many supported with actual facts

no no you relax

how when

no moments ever tranquil?

Always keep it moving

not even a second

to dream away day

peace mikey and corey, all pets go to heaven.

Light that shines special

for Mikey and Corey

can never forget you

thank you for letting me pet you

scratch that belly

behind ear below the fur

we all have constant itches

glitches in finite matrix

allowing for human contact

never domesticated

each moment was sacred

passionate solo if only just to dream

watch streetlights dance across

tomorrow's hopeful horizon

don't let the wind take away your ham

how thirsty are you for success

instant comfort mere humble mortal

blessed clock ticking away

from moment you emerge

make every word count

can you add up all the afterlifes

you wish you could regenerate

following tragic deaths

not a game

every day practice to refine

your simple skills

of breathing eating sleeping repeating

keeping company

bundle up snuggle to keep heart warm

safe spaces

that allow you to share

creative journey

a dot

pinch of dust

on a Planet Rock that can't stop

won't stop sun will continue grooving

moving towards love

around every corner

never worry

always walking beside

Mikey meow

Corey bark

in doggy kitty heaven

forever staying alive

visiting andover 15 years later pt 2

…...these buns may very well be....

after AfLatAm 45^th Reunion Weekend

blessings cloaked as controversial rejection

passing denial deaded with polite décor

mellow magic bedside manner so fidgety

you killed the mood even before possibility

let's broach bullshit approach nostalgia

with sense of getting family comfortable

presence requires greatness beyond sacred

what awaits after Great Lawn walking out

on song and dance same ol' shuck and jive

dig within archives to find ancient footage

timeless elevation

please crown me king

but don't call me brother

if you don't share my hustle

abstract art needs better frames

reference forgotten ideas fast

as smoke dances

under quiet streetlight tailgate

we fail to escape barbed wire gates

wrapped around memory lane

you have an obligation in perpetuity

preach community pride fluently

code switch at speed of claves clapping

behind your deeper conversations

adding action to jovial nonchalant rhetoric

give you imperative incentive

to respect my inherited Spanglish slanguage

visting andover 15 years later

Non sibi - “not for one's self”

FINIS ORIGINE PENDET - “the end depends on the beginning”

lawns are great if you own that much property

bequeathed on your behalf

ain't gonna get beheaded

because you could buy your way out of that jam

perpetual plans extend long past original epiphany

realize no one will give you a sympathy for failure

to follow through only fool left is you

standing in mirror under street spotlight

declaring you want to be the star of your own show

lack of sellout means you have stayed true to your story

sacrificed childhood so your future would be misunderstood

told you as many ways as possible

your life has to be the opposite

logic based off ghetto conflict

why do our people hate each other with such vigor

ancient history can be found in recent pictures

what purgatory exists in the miniscule middle

what are the riddles and reasons within your rhymes

back to revisit those good ol days

where your hunger was louder than whiteboys rock next door

when you could ask so much

comprehend absolutely nothing but just enough

acting so tuff to cover up issues at home

bubbling below surface could sense tension

when back from vacation any freedom is welcome

when off school plantation

who knew you be saving your father from being a vegetable

somewhere somehow there is truth in all those jive stories

made me look at my block Clason Point Gardens

between Lafayette Metcalf Noble and Story

beauty of barrio barred like barbed wires

telephone cable someone roofed old Forces

source of inspiration declaration wanting recognition

someone got to yell from benches in back park

WE ARE HERE been deep rooted like roses soft thorns

why do we bear burden of distant scorn

vagabonds who carry contraband in worn luggage beneath eyelids

so when we blink you can unlawfully search our curtains

releases shackles surroundings ankles wrists

brain stopped and frisked whipped into red velvet cake batter

one more ingredient in devil's apple pie

make sure your seasonings sazonrific

soul been solid

lyrics are liquid

molecules disappear to gas

good night gorilla, good night moon

Anocheci enfermo

            Amaneci bueno…..

                                                                        -Jay Wright, “The 2^nd Eye of the World”

watch the clock

run away without any sleep

during quiet twilight hours

should have taken sedative much earlier

to calm down caffeine

glad to make mother into grand generation

moves faster than you can stand

take steps deep breaths oxygen enough

to rock you to slumber comfortably

wonderfully

love the space given on divine clouds

connection to earth’s crust

truth is snoring loudly with eyes closed

slow motion slur

times passes so quickly all a blur

ponds and puddles never disturbed

try skipping rocks across wet surface

Jesus marched faithfully over deepest waters

you can barely take acid rain drops

stinging you on both temples

what images and memories

dreams and doubts dance around your mental

is it possible replace your escape

staying stuck within stubborn mindstate

don’t show up for your blessings too late

resurrection will give you a chance to elevate

Life will be better when you awake