been gone

enough; basta

            after dumb shit, end of always fronting

reaper profits

christmas bonus from our demise

evil will turn righteous spirit into zombie slaves

hard to behave

pacing in a cage

trapped by funky morals

which way do you grow

when shadows attached to shoulders

heart colder than

wind on wet naked skin

hugs craving human touch

if alone

a smile can reconnect

laughing at our tragic situation

such oblivious ignorance

passionate action requires

responsibility of heavenly presence

won’t communicate unless we can hear

clear conversation

tempting rushed judgement

we don’t see true representation

only angry archetypes

in search of stereotypical satisfaction

hatred distracts from core issues

missing point

reach for convenient scapegoat

soothe your confused soul

barely hanging by thinning scalp

sculpt statues out of doubt boulders

conference at crooks cypher

repatriate their pockets

thieves think tank

why fingers so sticky

at neverending feast ever full

assassins steal god’s light

for capital contracts spending

currency that couldn’t come back

revenge got us

losing pinky toes and stubby thumbs

until all that is left

is middle one

flipping off kindness

switch so eyes focused on faith

can barely feel our way through dark

so gloomy morning might not shine

reminded by mission

declaring gift to universe

what shall you offer to lift your fellow brother

how can you support your beautiful sister

we all pray towards the sun

on this tiny planet

earth we living

been

respeck on mi nombre

.950 radical invasion

if this ain’t the one/then guess better clap another/yes peace, good brother/no harm/humble jewels after hacked horror/picture much larger/than 4 block radius/who hates us/worst than cracked reflection/change perception/alignment severe crooked critical/in that red zone/barely looking to score/no thirst this evil/prowling for your quiet/cooped up on couch/damaged dungeon/salte de ahi/mystery turtle shell/cat hiss/wing flap/snake bite/bark; don’t fuck with anger/spoiled standard/superstar substance/trash in abundance/recognize displeasure/see your scars/mine got slit yesterday/wanted to heal since/honored chosen/recovery from broken family slow motion/explosion shards of invisible glass/beneath heart/admit/vida did not happen/anyway planned/if this magic/is blind fuckup/you lucky/piece of beautiful wonder/clown strings can’t stand/what been pulling/dull nail pounds hammer/in wisdom’s cavity/severe insanity/floundering lack of focus/scattered distracted/all lines dead/entire poetry discography/easily available/ask/so what if you don’t know me/fam & hood call me tony/but it is mr anthony morales to you buddy/props but fux the recognition/how willing are you to love/not judge/tell me que soy feo/if looking ugly

don't worry/i'm alive

hasty dip (109/exit 11/noble & lafayette/60^th)

unlimited entrances/101 exits/what’s the strategy to maintain/leave me be/let leaves fall in early autumn/at your very highest/faint heard death calling/won’t pick up phone/until no more love available/addiction is flesh eating scavenger/eager for empty mind to get wasted/bring your own brave beverage/above average rage/sinks below barest minimum wage/acting like never attended one of those sessions/screamed ay dios mio after smacked/osity had you like/frog tongue/midget trumpet/pin the uh the pin/thee but uh thee to the bee/only you can laugh at joke no one else will find funny/guy like you someday gonna go somewhere/found sitting on chopped trunk/counting rings/wandering watching stream filter/further north/crown to calloused corn/how so gone but never left/left as if always stay/stay like no place else to see/saw who else except me/still smoking sour in search of first time taste/so many wild mistakes/new & improved management/could handle today/might switch manana into blueprint for sustainable future/urgent list of priorities/failed to accomplish/abstract objective/creating legacy/while allowing healing/never was your fault/you did nothing wrong

another session

blunts upon a dime

/was your major       concern/never was               long term/past          what we were burning/       so don’t ask me         about establishing                legacy/wasn’t ready                         after graduation/young                   climate of confusion/misdirection is first glance               of illusion/all your ruins           have fossils/bleak                 reminder of               stark failures/           how the frack            did you leak that star/            did you peak              thus far/or are you               on belly flop ascent/ within lies      unique characteristic/          improvise       don’t allow             scripted statistic/      already missed          all those parties                                 you wouldn’t have attended/         mysteries blended into harsh truth/straight             no blazer/                  state of grace extra blessings as appetizers/                     fried disasters main course/desert refreshing/    sweet to shake you awake/ o for hoodness escape/        explosions contained within flammable veins/     average unknown ghosts             visit quite often/       dap up            the doubt/     so you                         at least            show face/                 don’t hang too late/              swing blindly at piñata         full of mistakes/        watch blunders stick behind you like                     shooting targets attached to where you wouldn’t wash off with weak reach/          soap and water masks hidden stench        trap marathon/oppression stacked generations shuffled/                                    jokers wild/black sheep       flavor fever nobody wants you to chill around/one deep           to the head    coolest company kept/  own best enemy worst friend/                   won’t wear anybody else’s skin                  except for this           oily sweaty     hairy skinny               epidermis/largest act up aching/               drink more water/                won’t be so ashy/     somebody threw sessions’ tray on your forehead/      with wrinkles and greys that won’t exfoliate/                  ghetto gravity stank attitude accelerate atrophy/            either wither or pudge away/ this can be the day   you put sin to the side/                   high senses keenly aware                all the action happening                  while party still chat/                     don’t be too loud                   off the volume in that bag/stashed/shush/          what up          how you feel/                        great/             at this lovely family gathering/                               had an epiphany                               look

mira estupido

noid nincompoop

spine cracking/dry knuckles/scuffed knees/too many falls/wrists same size as shorty/closest to seeing skeleton/fast forward/chubby ribs/stretch out/posture/so won’t be hunchback/always looking/for what you lost/large worth/work every flaw/stop biting nails/stop burning loose/stop frequenting hot blocks/stop eating bacon egg & cheese each morning/stop absorbing everyone else’s anxiety/tried sobriety/quite sobering/procrastinate premise/potential readily stagnates/within flabby hairy chest/you need to find home/growing where you planned breeds good awareness/slight preparedness/eager slip up/so sloppy/watch where you step/breaths provided by damaged respiration $/lungs rejuvenated/lighter load/limit to getting done/stiff starch preserves rotten wrinkles/wipe worry off sweaty brow/place finger inside/electric belly/whiff umbilical attachment/parched chakras block knowledge porque/left with hands in air/asking for almighty absolution/start to look at your life/in context/rest of world/conscious of privilege/love as purely as/foolish heart can endure/regressive like pathetic hairline/javiel’s knockout responsible/for demise of your nervous front/after parents split/emergency excuse became everyday/add profundity of heartache/in long scope of nuyorican history/no wonder you so lifted/galvanized by anonymous/police invasion of apt 7a/hammer to skull/instant silence/trauma funny/pop up however you don’t remember/until least convenience/manifested malaise/knot stuck in trapezius/since each moment hands held behind back/unable to escape/petty mistakes/never your fault/wrap bony arms/around each poem/fast like holding your wife/who you guess/still loves beyond convention/of nothing else/so rushed many years in/what do you have/to show for/twisted travels/except for entire anthology/in crate at bottom of mother in law house/that your better half/wants to purchase/necio nescio/at least this body/of service

Clason Point Gardens Poetry

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10473

After you hop off the Bx5

At the corner of Story and Noble

Head up the block to Hot Millz

24/7 convenience Lotto and Deli

for your preferred roll ups dollar Arizona

and Ham & Cheese on roll

before you go back to the lab

so you can eat relax zone out and don’t

have to go back outside to pass the chessboards

see Dee Lush wrinkle under orange ambiance

every Bloka watching cars criss cross twisted lane

what set you claim

what gang you bang

what up Tone session

why you keeping it moving

no longer chill while all the broke homies linger

everyone grew up passed on left behind

once was great

now outside way too late

lost can’t find

salvation on sale at corner store

no way to escape

we here until we find something better

never forget foundation

remember everywhere you fell down

scraped skin thought wouldn’t stop bleeding

what a feeling bags getting more brolic

Walk around every brick got similar flame product

So much fire

Burned away potential of powerful pueblo

Continuing legacy of broken barrio

Who will organize the tenants of Clason Point

All those years

Generations squeezed in couches

Any possibility of public private propriety

Instead infectious anxiety

PSA 8 still lurking for a security slip

Overnight trip

Throggs Neck Housing Precinct not even

43^rd across slick street

Right next to People’s Firehouse with

Season’s Greetings Wreath

Peek from childhood windows

Might find best friend from next door

Paying drive thru visit

Cement spirit mimic ice grill lyrics

Every Soundview rapper brags about

What guap they got

But you real Sangre

Under federal indictment

Move quiet about how you get it

Nah so loud

Always advertise whatever emptiness available

Wise guy grey hairs gracefully exit

Out the game but you stayed past your prime

Now a shorty shit stain

Who used to be your doula

Wants to splatter extinction

Until you ain’t safe

To smoke in the same place

Bullets chase sharp poison

Bitter liquor sweet revenge

Don’t exist when you still on same bench

Disappear before sun drops temperature

Raises death as topic of conversation

Quick casualty

Coughing up what’s left of courage

Creeping around chest

Powerful mind weakest flesh

Fool school over sweaty chichos

At sausage fest sponsored by Hennessy XO

Very special

Influential insight inhibited because so much

Dumb shit disrupted long lineage

What legacy can we establish for our descendants

Bequeath reputation rotten hatred foul doctrine deceit

Pass along plugs if legit

Let me hold whatever’s remaining

After love evaporates

Meet up at Jimbo’s for best breakfast in regular radius

Built about where we been

Begin to embrace where we at

Hood is toxic trap

But our families held on to us

Push us forward never back onto cool curb pillow

Snooze how much lost

But rest of life here to gain

Every garden mobbing

Where’s the promise of hungry money

Historical district of urban planning

Benign neglect failure follows fickle finance

Food stamps fed us

Malnourished with nutritional deficiencies

From false profit

Never acknowledged for ambitious stories

Instead robbed of liberty

Lack of freedom

Prisoners of ignorant glory

Can’t blame brothers

Bearing beastly burden vicious victims

Of political impoverished public housing system

But bredren

It ain’t the illuminati

That’s killing our righteous living

Searching for Optimism

Pull up

Exchange routes

Relax

Either wise or points high

Swiftly drive by

Interrupt pacing

Racing against what we facing

Immeasurable odds

Forever filthy

Who will feel me

Look over like I love this guy

CPG benches type high

Manana embrace next level

Peace power and justice

Follow faith endless

Always family

Simply stuck

When we all soured up

And don’t give a fuck

What will try enough

Laughing while lurking

Who regards how you searching

Shut down

Next caveman catharsis

Sag with cane sugar

Props for going brazy

Syrupy corn

Exclusive fire

Throat raspy

Strip club market niche

3^rd still scrapping everlasting

Past margin figure that’s cool

Extent of burned out topology

Make up craters age

Slams gravity on hollowed out lungs

This ain’t going nowhere

Soother gotta travel on rugged forest

Break fences ignite under branches

So hype you can taste spliffy saliva

Straight stuntastic rental stash

Riding slow obeying traffic laws

Against crooked bookings central

Anthem celebrate suffocating

What we wish to own

Original god building with ancient wisdom

How was you listening to concrete breathe

Lyrics classic quotable

Chasing chickens

Paint perfect trap talk

Young’n undersmell dank aroma

Light depression heavy clouds

No more or left

Take a leak test

Sum up all your experiences

Results ain’t no epiphany

Extinguished side on

Who back you got

Overstand how reckless fools are

Stooges hobbling for crossover

Ankles all ashy

This brother preaching homicide

When he needs hope and a hot meal

Cool room to crash

When everybody bounce

You still listening to your hood hits

While crew said Fuck You

You stayed wanting end of night el

If flock’s dead who can guide sheep

Towards revival

Resurrection ain’t easy

If respiration’s potential is cloudy

Fizzy piss determines which way you drive

When we gonna thrive

Absolutely complacent with

Public housing paradise

Yap where you at

False prophets fake followers

For Venom can only hope that we apply

Lessons to strengthen next generation

No guidance for chancla entourage

Pinball piff spots perhaps

Next presidents will have passed time like this

Illuminate infrastructure injected inferiority

Within each puff how powerful

Parents potted where your youth lit it loud

Had it once upon a had to grow up

Gain more mananas young brolic

Flexing like fuck it hashtag validviolation

Push purpose in that pen

Friends like family only few left

Go get it the best

Less than never

Stay quite clever

For what you given

Much is owed

Load blessed burden

New world turning in innocent brains

Still that kid from Clason Point Lane

Look yourself in mirror

Please say I CAN

Gather glorious gospel in new land

Embrace unknown

What’s yet to come shall be grand

I miss El Puente Academy, Peace and Justice Forever

Make it Rain Journals

                  After Ronaldy Salcedo

Un tipo loco declares

I got an interview with Harvard tomorrow

Gonna get up at 1 am right now its 1130 am

Been screaming non stop

Gillie da kid ghostwriter

Be like Cannon

Dis youth terrible attention deficit

Loose oversized jeans with no belts

Chucks no laces

No braces with sores on gums

Son I’m no ignorant chump

I got my knowledge I signed up for illuminati

When I’m alone I’m a monster

When I’m with peoples I get shook

How you do it Ant

In front of all those people

Big pool gotta dive in

How are you surviving

Ridiculous fool running around weary mask

Sociably barely known locally

Vocally identified before having any place

In bullshit conversation

Inject isolation intravenously

Previously desired greater mananas

Now prisoner of your palabras

Disciplined by drama

Can’t even pretend to be calmer

Hypebeast is on overdrive

Stupido zone eyeballs rolling back in blessed skull

Beloved baba precedent over rising above

Elevation held back by grimy gravity

What is sanity when we all barely hanging on

Nails poorly hammered floor board squeaking

One eye peeking behind bangs

Don’t let your hope hang off a tree

Can you believe blood on leaves from brown brain

Hanging in breeze sad strange fruit

Pursuit of death instead of defining your life

say my name

Morales

Weighing scales of justice

Seesaw heavy balance missing

Dizzy needle in rainy jungle

Puddle on top of glacier

Salt crystal at bottom of shaker

Small ant on blade of grass in ghetto acre

All praises to divine creator

Plowing path on planet rock

Floating in vast universe

No reverse abstract cyclical

Material deadened spiritual

Long travels circle enough laps

Turn dizzy

Not wrizzy until you concede defeat

Legacy of royalty

Describe concrete against warm insides

Regurgitated

How much further can you take it

Threshold is stagnant alcohol

Mixed with gut acid

Thrashing like cat in cold water

Dame un refresco

Tengo que respirar

Ghetto scholar

Hood thespian

Spontaneous block theatre

Rare referendum

In pointless election

Perception outweighs politics

Porqueria infects your immune system

Is it possible to purge

Heavily processed perspective

Regulated with internal critics

Integral lyrics

Connected with your pride

In your darkest moments

Truth will let you survive

Working on fumes

From wombs zoom until tomb

Marked or undistinguished

Relinquish that pedigree

Effortlessly holding onto negativity

Distracted by intangible

Handle with kitchen mittens

Too hot to touch

Avoid the cherry on the j

Lingering too close to pointer

Raised to sky

Berrylicious morality

Never was sweet lies

better said no one misses me

Mejor Dicho

Let me say it better

I have not fully healed

No space for such shy

Fruity pebbles pink milk

Fall sink further into

Well done mistake

Who can relate

Except who always been on time

Slime from chemical residue

All this is long overdue

Petty scofflaw

Penalty inattention fine details

Spiritual forcefield

Repeals those demons

Serious integrity

Never had to schluck and gibe for sanity

Fist bump associates

Hugs daps for family

Handle tragedy as well as

Two tears

Same weight

Dropping in sequence

Broken grammar gives you

No pretense

Pass frank the blunt

Kind candor in choppy cadence

Tell me tomorrow we have clouds

Today been pouring

Honest dollar speak off screech

Squeak young pip

Gone with great expectations

What odds we facing

Chase what block will offer

Hold on to home

Stealing city less likely

Release bullshit lethargy

Pardon me dipstick

Take fridge off door

Step back inside

Provide for who makes you alive

Let faith be your guide

Boi become man

Never too late

You gotta say

What manana you will create

RIP ASAP YAMS

It was the YAMS

            SIP Steven Rodriguez

Every blackout

Becomes more like Bushwick in 77

Or the Boogie in 05

Thinking you live

More rehearsed regression

Poison a weapon pointed at temple

Filtered through battered liver

Liquor liquid pain

Leaving you in physical hurt

Translated in lyrical verse

About leaning while vertical

Dreaming while drowning

In puddle of purple hurl

Different world when elders

Never served as positive example

Take classic sample distorted

Standard of realness transported

OT back and forth

Work designed to bring profit

Crossing state lines

Crimes are pass limits

Of human consumption

Uncontrolled substance packaged

Luxury brand high end fashion

Corner is runway

Bring crackers close to where we live

Make em sponsor our suffering with

Cross pollinated culture

Vultures hover over bloated carcass

Getting plug on exclusive epitaph

Scratchitti on tombstone

Bottle up tears

Fragrance sour and eau de tragedy

Tattooed MOBB LIFE across knuckles

Who knew celebrity shuffle would rob life

Had all the CEOs waiting on Hood Pope

Pretty Flacko

Bag up the block

Blessings squeeze through stylish streets

Brief appearance give motivation

Added inspiration from aura

Trapped by slavish system

When we make our pain popular

They might listen

Lords Never Worry Bout Pesos

Standing in rain on 1 train platform

From Dyckman to the Ferry

Knowing this vida if you don’t got it

Go get it

Always Strive and Prosper

Assassinate Snakes and Punks

Abandon Stress and Pressure

Future will flip

Flex your heart

Simply strut

trying to keep living yall

Honest body

Blessed temple

Might be some next

Shaky don’t get easily gassed

Time passed

Grab clock

On pause

Presence don’t mean

Someone will pay mind

Knowledge background noise

Harmonize horrible high notes

Soldout symphony

Static shatter frequency

Bold clarity

Molecules residue yesterday’s trauma

Delicate armor skin

Brain still rattling chains

Invisible cuffs

Palmful wallet

Scratched couldn’t identify attribute

Powerful energy

Set you free

Zoom while walking

Silly superhero humble humor

Take off when you want

Packed duffel full of doubt

On quest fulfill duty

Duende darkens night

Precise pinnacle of power

Demons say you ain’t ready

Unsteady on loose rock

Spinning like you stuck

Lick knuckles

Bloody due diligence curled fist

Sweaty adrenaline

Which way do we go

Can’t look at compass

Heart guides what’s next breaths you make

Take reparation by any leans necessary

Don’t die

Waiting on greatest miracle to manifest

Each second blessed

Even when you won’t see past struggle

Bubble burst

Flaunt flotation

Material consumption

Pockets don’t got bottom

Who follows apologies of broke philosophers

Barely cover basics but

Craft complex cocotazos

Raise palms to cry manana is possible

If I add up this stress to wavy yesterdays

Might could ride this current

Back to uncomfortable coast

Touch this land have a chance

Beginning one more mile in magical marathon

Bound to be strong

Blessed fire diving spark

Giving warmth

Replenish what been diminished

Epiphany reinvented when kindly connect

Invite insight

Pigeon shit on you for suerte

Said good luck

Take flight

I MISS NYC SO MUCH

The city is my muse

Breathing that traffic train

Rush hours heart don’t stop

Until you get home from work

Brick wind

Concrete grill bitter

Go to hospital be iller

Hit fruit stand

Shiny apple in rotten manzana

Street level pharmacist

Lets you self medicate

Cost of living easy to hate

Gentrifucker hipster

Pricing you out petty paradise

Faking discovering your corner

Life and death been

Standing on the crossroads

Opportunity missed the shuttle bus

Regret begging for a transfer

If you give me a swipe

I’ll freestyle a bootleg fuzzy

With laugh track and camcorder jiggle

Bleak clouds tear jerker

Benefit cut Boar’s Head

Diaper loose and beef pattie

Crying baby needs to nurse

Under neon dollar menu

Parents missing in action

Tears collected in reservoir

Ready to be bottled purified from tap

Slapped by sidewalk

Who will stop and feed that child

Raise youth find beauty in cold cement

Joy in barely paying rent

Suspense not knowing where yesterday went

Born in uncertain barrio

Who will lend you a napkin

If you leak from jugular

Oppression so regular got grooves

Where stiff cuff clicks

Paint by numbers chaos

Sidewalk chalk body outlines

Reaching vertical stretched horizontal

Blast Uptown Baby at OT drivethru

Forever bleed Knicks orange blue

Haunted by lack of success overdue

Make it aqui you will be popping papi

Si no another case of the coulda shoulda

Who wouldn’t put up a battle worthy

Candlelight memorial even if you empty

Every 40 guzzled gallon of goose

Hyped off henny you still can’t drip

As heavy as east flowing to Harlem

Bubbling to Atlantic

Stranded on islands of isolation

Cut the bullshit

Why you carrying around baggage

From past decades

Grinding for minimum wages of routine

Rigamorole all control freaks

Who can’t hold onto hope for too long

The beast will break you weak

Streets can make you strong

What’s more beautiful

Than summer morning

As we wait for dawn

yeah i moved

Ojala

Take a chance stage dive

When unexpected watch panic set in

Let syllables bungie

Gravity grounds you in the ghetto

Petrified perpetual

Reasons been regretful

Recent resent sent again

Return to sender

Low postage

Marked date forgetting everything

Except your laughs

Drafts with holes in windows

Too chilly to get snuggly

Brisk breeze pull skully tighter

Early riser sun won’t pull

Something surprising

Flicking mooga

Left pockets parched

No phosphoro

For back up clips to spark

Stark bleak stare

Widescreen off tint

Collide scope dark canvas

Who waits for

Tomorrow wasting today

Watching yesterday

Disappear hoping to blow up

Next week

All the ashes will resemble

Statues where shadows once stood

Don’t celebrate execution

Or rejoice in demise

Dance with divine one more time

so called leaders with no followers

Verguenza Sin Baba

Conference full of clowns

Experts elected to maintain status quo

Shucking jiving to squeeze inside

Ivory tower illusions of power

Mingling minions

Hungry for idol worship

Suck up with selfie to prove

You rub elbows with celebrity academics

King’s crown lack sincere shine

Dangle you dream with torn laundry line

Dirty drawers thrown away

Forgotten funk realer than elevator jingle

Crazy how far block fame

Can bring you back to foundation

Genesis of critical consciousness

Essential why

Pen to paper sacred word cry

Heavenly muse decided to pay visit

Divine reception inspiration

Soothes spirit so much static in city

Can barely hear your own voice

Many choices few options

No selection stuck on bobito

You are writing to heal soul

Not become spokesman of your people

So much evil

Lurking tempting you to join

Spaced out zombies

Brain meat chunks

Deep dive in dark lagoons

Curse thought clouds

For lack of levitation

Analyze situation

Stuckazoid in middle of Smacked City

Poor barely get pity

Rich are rotten ripe

Picking apart bones from flesh

Hollow skull brittle skeleton

Miscreant meddlin

Right where devil’s been

Prepare receive blessings

Daily work is your evidence