i'm still alive

Soon siempre comes

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respeck on mi nombre

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I still believe I'm a poet. I think that counts for something.

Hope Hangover

When you hit the block

Your fangs descend

Fishscales regenerate

On your exoskeleton

You got a concrete chin in a plywood jaw

With fire hydrant tears

The corner has little concern for

Your vulnerable exterior

Giving away Bravo chips and nacho cheese

On your scrawny shoulders

You left logic leaking from internal bleeding

Beneath the stop sign

Each gypsy cab takes as suggestion

Nobody obeys the speed limit here

Each pedestrian takes rush hour express

For a triplicate signature with notarized witness

Verifying they are you

Hop on shuttle bus completing off books transaction

But forgot a receipt testifying to withdrawal

Call next on full

Hope young boys don’t pick you last

Wait for ball to come to you

Take shot if you open

Make shorties remember your name

Because you got more grey hairs

Than they got losses

Half your sweat inherited

Another amount paranoid investment

For every spot tell them your war stories

Nobody cares unless currency confirmed

Exchanged debt on what you can’t pay

Let gravity pile up your change caliber

Hit up yala to hold a loosey on the arm

While Lucy on patrol salivating for you to spit

Could you ever switch

Write that slithery solo

Dolo to cabeza association of abandona’o

Ese tipo bien pasa’o

Pero chewing for what you can barely nibble

Where mi gente know the riddle of life

Ain’t no fortune cookie

Terrific trinity

Sour haze kush

Begging salvation in front of Holy Cross

Scared to step in all the sins might sting

While angels stare

Who care except who still surviving

Long to scribble in these pages

Face a pagina blanca

Ain’t a smidgeon resembling pigeon

Shitting on you for Buena suerte

Cheers to customers hunting for ganga

Direct dollar tree 99 cent or more

Keep crib mistolin fresh despite

Kitty litter or Entourage

Pausa slash on skin

Buck fifty gauze stitch

Guava guayabera on triple fat goose

Gully peace god

Attempting to maintain

Apply this daily science

So you won’t get an F in finance

Felon without inside tips

Ribs boneless

No bonus for overtime on benches

Homie don’t get spoiled by fine selection

Perforation on back means

Pull with skilled perfection

These walls give dull reception

Sculpt scars around intimidating white space

In a race with shadow

Beating you to finish line

Pinata papi

Candy spin out sugary guts

Take a dump from your clip

Left a few by window sill

Each morning had daily ritual

Sorta iffington in air gone scent linger

Longer than you think

Too much time in between barbed wire parenthesis

Can’t invent these dreams

Wherever you at is the scene

Jungle ain’t gone

Fall through pay your friendly visit

Pain on exhibit

Vintage played out fashion

Wear those wrinkles so well

Old citizen how could you yell

All frazzle stubble

More polite pebble than sure solid rock

On top receding shore

Dawn days of yore

Bubba yummy

Blink unwrap mind map

Where you at

None of your clucking fitness

Tick to click

Memory straight hit trig

Once a kid

Sing a song of Solomon

Lonely king

Hold it like a boulder

Bolsa de fuego waiting to be lit

Who got next twist

Stuff a godfather burned in effigy

Fresh recipe precise knocking

Got whole hood shaking

Over there cheating no duplication

Rain gives papercuts

Bills go extra crispy

Miss me with that frail knowledge

Representation of CPG wise scholars

Ponder tomorrow

Powder pepper trails with dutch remnants

For you to follow

Stuck in town puddle drowns

Strike hype chord praise Lord

Shiver chills ill with bagged up cure

Emptied to be refilled

Form jagged geometry

Geology bugged landscape

Parched tundra

Transform backpark into pop up gallery

Sidewalk silent auction

Spontaneous game from 10473 893 7354

Original numbers remembered

Like scabs you forgot you fell

Train rumble schedule

Static standing behind line caution

Read the signs or

Hack up lung butter fine

Cram shred of steroid corroded beef

Don’t know why or who we fighting

Bare truth at special committee

Where does your sangre stand

Shattered with no lint magic dust

Only got honesty left

With hands out

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

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

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