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

No Tienes Miedo This Halloween

Do not be afraid

Do not be wicked when you barely been innocent

Do not be militant if you not willing to die for your noble fraud

Do not be self righteous when you can barely wipe your ass

Do not be curious if you comfortable in your ignorant bliss

Do not be wise fool be broke and happy with your simple ways

Do not expect tomorrow to be easy if you can’t deal with today’s troubles

Do not waste your soothing moments with tense tontos

Who have no sense of where they are headed like you

Lost hanging on rolling up hoping to hear something good

Do not judge the next man when you have been

As played out papi chulo as plastic playerific

Fatalistic fiend tempermental teen

Motherfucking machisto who makes up his own myth

Do not perfect your craft let your gut hang chichos all lovely

Do not hold onto heroes as superhuman

Pedestal got peglegs attached to carefully painted portrait

Do not get flashy with your fame stay simple as hungry as you came

Do not turn lame making literati laugh but the homies couldn’t catch the joke

Do not smoke with paranoid ghost dogs who take freebie chiefies

Do not weaken your speech to narrow your reach

Do not release your grip while riding shaky train

Do not just maintain current malaise escape invisibility completely conspicuous

Do not get lonely when crowded accidental flagrance purposeful fragrance

Do not be vague vagrant blend with transience transition your hues mix with greys

Do not be careful with what you say careless what you can sculpt rocky terrain

Do not let tears remain tasty salty cheeks stubbly bumble

Do not fumble mumble or grumble

Do not hold on to bundles you can’t handle

Pass out pounds

Roll up the Constitution so you can burn away your right to be a delirious luxury loving citizen of prepackaged organic

Do not take your anger out on a shadow

Darkness has nothing to do with your depths

How far you’ve sunk shows how much you can rise

Do not be shook or shy

World will see fear

As soon as you blink misty eyes

Fetti Cheddar Guap Paper Currensy Stacks

Disposable income

Preexisting condition with affliction

To ignoring cultural tradition

How can this transition into raw capital

Suitable for social economic political guerilla warfare

Known knowns

Known unknown

Hood shorties voluntarily give up

Because of subliminal intimidation

Plantations been preserved

Invisible chains around decaying brain

Withering body

Unhealthy processed bodega

Tasty synthetic food

Hunger pains give ill attitude

Students said it’s too dark in projects

Can only read by streetlight

Bleak vision fuzzy focus

They leave the TV on so commercials

Can program their dreams

Gold plated ghetto

Is not as shiny as it seems with

Delicious distraction

Fashionable fads

Terror trends

Can’t recognize

Who is enemy

Who is friend

None left

Vulture scavengers have bled

Remainder of revolution

Mosquito drone fly into ear

Make you zone to lower levels

Scan barcode of humanity

Only see veins intoxicated

Corrupt chemicals

Inedible vegetables

Seeds sown in contaminated soil

Guns oil diamonds

Carrot dangling silly rabbits

Will never feast

Ain’t no place safe

When eyes always watching

Plotting sophisticated algorithm

Disrupting electric signals

Governing stressed nervous system

Delayed reaction makes you

Destroy your brother

Slander your sister

Misguided violence produces

Empty existence

So ignorant never learned how to listen

Mire bobito

Pon atencion

Greatest weapon is a burnt tongue

Waiting to scream

Declare the pain

We need world to change

Overcoming internal conflict

Soul guiding purpose

Application of essential knowledge

Critical to resurrection of reason

Believe in pigment’s power

Melanin reflection of sun

Heart’s drum will forever keep a descarga beat

Ready to improvise the inevitable antidote to poison

Polluting our Pa’lante

Upon entrance

Make a ninja like exit

Leaving bodies behind you

With rest of tomorrow in front of

Glossy eyes unafraid of frightful fate

Is it all too late

To start making a comeback

Nah Son

Ain’t where you from

How you break out that trap

where you headed

No sense of direction

Lack of purpose

Declaring you will be rich means you broke

Slowly recover liberation

Critical consciousness takes effort

Please don’t be impatient

Awakened by brand new energy

Chemistry impacted unbalanced brain

Wicked synapse

Soul on different track

Eventually be derailed

Emergency

Kid quiere crema

Throw spoiled milk on brain

Distracted as flies dipped

Mugola all twisted and distorted

Chuckle if you started to cry

Eye water would be non stop

Trickle to river

You need to be baptized in bullshit

If you was displayed in a shrine

Monument to lack of memories

In remembrance of annoyed enemies

Disgusted by obnoxiousness

Anxiety curls 5 chains around reason

Rap battle zero hypeman

Solitary voice shaking nervous system

Resume won’t release you from prison

False headstart

Scar over bridge of nose where 3^rd ojo dwells

How lovely

Residing in very own luxury hell

You don’t become more coherent

Louder you yell

be on point at the parade gente

Isla frita

How do you process privilege

Sacrifices from ancestors made on your better behalf

Be whole

Laugh dance sing dream in whatever order you allow

Don’t suffer generational consequences

Because everything is out of service

Due to illuminati invasion anniversary of

An island 135 million years old emerged from

Angry ocean

Earth is 15 billion years old

Me I’m 33 Babita been blessed with 91 years

Infinitesimal speck on the canvas of multiverses

What are the partisan politics of quasars in another galaxy

Challenge to stay optimistic when rain on sunny days

Has you conflicted every detail of your pain

Can be specifically traced to DNA dancing

Drama down dark alleys of varicose veins

Rarely seeing victory

Let sunlight part the fog on your history

No longer typically victim statistic

Population pacified red tierra will testify

Bloodshed en busqueda de libertad

To do what you absolutely please

Don’t be apathetic or apologetic

Aggressive in search of destiny

Using best mental weaponry

Affirming path in poet’s passage

With eyes closed take a shot

Speak life into reality

Make your dreams actions

Wise ninja said

We need to show the youth

Our freedom fighters bloody scars

Lion king said

The stars will always guide you

Never leave you alone

You will forever have a home

Where coquis sings to concrete

Across 4 hour flights in business class

Whenever you land

Hear our hands clapping like claves

Bats welcome you to distant caves

Where your runaway slave great great

Great grand uncles carried their visions in bundles

Looking for holy shelter sanctuary

Hearts were the only actuaries

Turned legacy to stone cobbled roads

Breaking silence

So you could figure your path

Amidst city static

Climax to your lack of progression

Heavy depression

Will make your shoulders slouch

Oppression so numbing

You barely say ouch when bitten

Please take prescription and bounce

Purchase a light cebolla to flip into foundation

We can firmly stand upon

Our beauty is beyond condemned blocks

Puercos watch and envy to rob happiness

Want to use sadness as fuel to a greasy system

Pipeline from gutter ghetto to powerless prison

Of mind believing no one will listen

But we still hear your gritos loud and clear

Severe condition critical

Transform your spiritual to lyrical

Manifest miracles to resurrect movements

No longer losing

Your confusion isn’t exclusive

Mentality molded through umbilical

Poverty cyclical

No need for telescopes to encounter lack of hope

Down to miniscule molecules

Won’t learn this liberation inside schools

Designed to damage

Ability for proper analysis of compound fracture

Bones bursting through skin

Sin makes you pop you own brother

False thuggery uttered like pan con butter

Moments of strength never stutter

Deep within lies true conviction

Give yourself permission to shine

Eyes reflection of radioactive sun

Toca significant drums

Summon people to paradise plaza

Hay que mejorar la raza

Pero no con porqueria

Advertisements on every building

Overtly urging you to consume capitalism

As your cacique

Money is your GOD

Every cent is your santo

Referring to dollars as dona

Manana convinced that exile to rotten manzana

Won’t make you a sangana

Mira muchacho

De que tu hablas

Nunca blah blah o tonteria

Hay que ser humilde e inteligente

To see who is real enemy trying to hustle you

From not loving the mirror

Whenever the horizon is clearer

Calm before paranormal tormenta

Make our beautiful gente into invisible ghosts

Gone

Statues for sunburned tourists to drive by

Take pictures and stare

Lost footnotes at bottom of pages never read

Fed enough YUM brand fast food

Children will be malnourished in perpetuity

Cruise choppy waters tirando bombas

New world order bequeathing civilization

Savage society impatiently waiting for

Status quo sandwish mallorca bread

Lovely land with lack of liberty

Class stratification gives you no symmetry

Until you in cemetery and every tombstone

Looks the exact same

Gamble away all your ganas

Sell out all your panas

Tomorrow can’t be more lame luxury

Corporate resorts sell you jibaro nostalgia

Illegibly infiltrated from inception

Hear this motivational message after Medalla

Chasing Don Q

Pushing you pa’lante nunca patras

Mis palabras de boca will travel to Dios’ ears

Learn the lessons to break out of colonial cage

Todos somos Boricuas de pura sepa

Albizu Lolita Filiberto Piri Pedro Miky

Machetero reinvented with rage

Before I wrote this on a blank page

Took it to stage

Coquis hyped me up

Told me sigue cantando

Siempre con corazon LORD

BE BRAVE

where you been at

please don't call it a comeback

been here as long as tears taken to dry

was that fly on the wall during every reading

was there in spirit when you slammed your heart

we all caught the blood

everyone fought the web wrapped around

nightmares right where the needle

meets the vinyl groove before first note

causes you to rewind selector

bring back that classsic from the top

no need for external affirmation

to make my dreams pop will believe

in personal possibility until gravity

drops apples causing epiphany

rapidly actually statistically if was

going with easy entropy likely wouldn't

even exist i won't ask for your permission

to cause you to listen

there won't be any choice

to acknowledge this voice

calling for recognition off rooftops

the air will pick up frequency across

breeze carry across seas causing ripples

in puddles every poem pieces to puzzle

don't need your help to make me spit

but sing along to my struggle

speak up

Say it like you mean it

Pa’lante Ashe

Que Viva Mi Gente Para Siempre

There must be some reason

Behind the evil they speaking

Figure it out

Work

Understand

Communicate

With what

Is staring

At you

So tired

Energy

Is like

Winning the lotto

Inhale

The musty musk

Of seasoned funk

In the stale air

Seems like

I only

Touch myself

Fall asleep

Wide awake

Still with

All my problems

Cono

Eso

Esta

Muy

Pesa’o

Lo que

Pasa

Pasa

Me gusta

Arroz con pasta

Can’t quite

Put my finger

On exactly what

Is holding

Me down

If only

Was the phrase

That never paid

This kid

Recovered

From regrets

For the final act

I guess I was

Supposed to

Bring it all together

Why

When everything

Feels so apart

Probably not

If you followed me

It would be

A joke

You couldn’t stop laughing

All the money I owe

I’m still paying

For shit

I never use

Whatever you will

Will be the curse

All those mistakes

Made still feels

Like the first

As I sit here

Wherever it maybe

Hopefully

I’m not

breaking any laws

Just by being

me

I swear

There is

something

out there

better

than this

I want

To remember myself

As one of

The greatest

Ideas

Who didn’t have

Enough time

You go

Right now

You do

you gonna get this work

For me it was all about figuring this shit out. I know I took my sweet time with everything but I guess the lord has her own script for the way I’m living. Sometimes I’d like to think that those visions are entwined, but I’m often shown otherwise. So I bask in those small moments that remind me that what I’m going through is so much bigger than I am. Only a small dot infinitismal molecule in the galaxy of humanity. Just trying to keep moving every day like the sun shines new light on old scars in the hood.

So what is the deal? Statis, nothing else fams. If I tried to tell you otherwise I’d might be someone else. But me, stuck on the block with the same old folks doing the clichéd same old shit. Really. Even if you ask them, what’s good, they say, same old shit. As if we don’t have different bowel movements each time we eat something else. But what can you do when the only option are Kansas Fried, Kee Hing Chinese Restaurant, Hot Millions, snack cakes and sour powers washed down with High Fructose Sugar Water? So all that schooling, even going round the country and the Caribbean still got you in the same spot you was drooling as a young’n. Thinking that hanging out with the dropouts and criminals was going to instantly add to that the street credibility you been so desperate for. Like that saying you take the man out the ghetto but you can’t get the cold corners dark lights and smoky rooms from the soul. It stays trapped in the walls of your skin like that metallic musk you smell when you step in the elevators and sazon sticking to the hallways of your hope.

Where I’m at? Right in the back park, headphones on, zoned out, looking at the moon shift shape in the purple sky while the clouds cling on to the good memories of today trying to make the pain go away so that the sunrise can be brighter tomorrow. Analyzing the parts of myself that I keep hidden tucked away like the secrets behind my eyelids. Most likely just catching my breath while about to breeze around the city, scooping inspiration from the beast when the conga man bangs boogaloo on his bongo, the iron horse rumbles to the next stop, hopefully I will be getting wherever on time at least within reasonable colored people tardiness. Right to action.

But what happens when the words aren’t enough? Do we ever stop being poetry in life?

ignint

Public delinquent

Subliminal ignorance

Qualified nonsense by

Stupid followers

No consequence

Followed by insincere apology

Can’t be bothered

Insides starving

Ribs touching

Cool shit as crutch

What do you lust

Whom do you trust

Devils pie baked crust

Feel rush

100 % foolish terror

Clueless characters

Playing games of charades

Invisible mind critical

Conscious of being called criminal

Never subliminal

Spit directly at face

Please taste disrespect

What memories will you collect

Along pathetic path

Shattered dreams

Incomplete nightmares

Where responsibility

Dipsets on your daily value

Evil suffocates spirit

Never had a chance to breathe

Living life through thumb

Your dumbness

Starts to rub

Static electric shock

Can you even afford charges

No surprise

You can barely survive

Intelligent oxygen

Is in limited quantities

Gimmicks and impostors

Try to sell

You bridge streetlights

And a dash of truth

Only your experience

Can be living proof