western grebes are ill

rushing ceremony

blink; heal upon sacred touch/face blush/as body flushes out grief shame doubt/no question what you are about/crown open claim clarity brother lucker/mask on laugh now cry later/these tears don’t come in packets of artificial fructose flavor/screams got concentrated sodium/veins bursting blood pressure/either smiling or scowling/heart still alive/place palm on chest/establish cyclical breath/natural rise/steady pace/growing past set final stretch/have not reached regression yet/ever ripening maturity/artisanal cure/hand crafted personal blend/seasoned each session with secretive spells/sculpted by sunrise or streetlight/every bird saw was god on scene/impeccable fragility/deliver spirit willingly/move according to blood veen diagram/overlapping agenda/elegant execution/ruby throated resurrection/tame instinct attack instant/passive resistance/damming demise/crested courage/tufted temerity/top billed brink/true footed duty/cannot depend on cookie preservatives/scorching burner or cold floor in booking will learn quick/can’t carry weight of previous delays into new day/brand new rebirth into destiny/searching for lost scraps/when picture been staring back/wherever want to go/along for bumpy ride/home is ultimate destination/can’t determine when arrive/in your time/not mine/so if late/let me be/punctual eventual/when meant to see/scream triumphant a si!!!!!/leave box behind/step light/run on water/ten steps flapping/take off soar/gone next flight

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

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

been a long time, just been living,

circumference

circle stance/show up as you left/ready to leave/last when you define demise/antonym of rise/somehow purgatory/in your body/gather spooky haunts/every uniform has chilling effects/respect drops/paranoia persist/in spite of environment/bent energy everywhere/at red line/terrible threshold/until tomorrow taps mouth/no more words left except/pain preserved/on pages yellowing like t shirts pitted/pick any trauma from menu/abandonment a lo mode/disaster dim sum/stir fried violence/artisan shame/guilt gazpacho/empty eggs/scars soufflé/don’t care what you write/watch what you say/might take a minute/when days are centuries/seconds are moments/but hours/add up to lifetime of blessed seasons/mixed wasted sessions/who dare tippy toe on tight rope/with twisted balance/still got smoke bubbling through veins/each wire frayed underkept/lo nervio/how you made/oye musica for every ear/notes tremble with fear/walk away/recognize divine is nearest/between head & heart/vida displayed/live so let there/be no mistake/soak magic to marinate/ain’t no escape/stay steady/difficult departure/how you came to this path/quest in your chest/anxious lungs/post up/presence never been problem/accept skin/sadness burst within/ready if you will/listen/the levels/the levels is good/holding onto hood/overstood you already/knowledge your science/experimental sound/bring victory to view/starving garden chrome point/cpg chosen few/break plexiglass swivel window/lemme get pack of freedom/fuck you mean/sold out/inventory & got no love in storage/mourned couldn’t teach each lesson/priceless worth applied/like son’s first big wheel ride/run behind/ensure nobody falls/guarantee been bruised/cried sweated enough for us all/

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 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

September is the Best part of the Year, 2015

Sweet September Slide

Have you heard the one about freedom

Further away from cage

More yearning for chains

Diablo don’t want to let you go

Easier with stressed yesterday

Attached to this present moment’s

Ungrateful aspiration

Consequence of faulty policies

Petty procedures

To be sure

Scan the cliff notes contract for fuckshit

Clearly stated in fine print

Forget fantasy

Tropical see and see top pop

Let bubble drip

Math after disposable remainder

Skid mark streak stark reminder

Rusty rainbows beneath cutthroat clouds

Jealous how your skin sponge dirty water

Evil evaporates downpour of doubt

Dedicated despite drought

This limpieza turn chest inside out

Steal what I feel when I reveal what the dealings

Precise percentage almighty algorithm

Punch in data

Spit out promising perspective

Upfront oppression

Shadowy depression

Dragging comfortable cadaver

With impeccable creases

On century lease with daily payments

Compound fracture dusty bones

Exposed hollow tree trunks

Deteriorate core

Break at weakest point

Regenerate scattered pieces of original man

Control your soul

Chaos most charming flaw of character

Mellow meditate during disaster

Super structure founded on

Lazy eyed ghosts of forgotten massacres

Amateur aperture fuzzy focus in foggy film

Wind cries who gives a fuck

Weeping while you wait

Journey starts once you choose to escape

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

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