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Showing posts with label nyc. Show all posts

9.16.2015

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

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

5.08.2014

Gentrification Poem


An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war – Mark Twain

Stock full of flaws

Laughable if not miserable execution of humans
For no other reason than profit

Infinite bankroll for generations of grands
Stand upon stolen land speaking foolishly
Reaping benefits much to the dishevelment of barrios

Vulture capitalists smell rotting realty from 2 towns past
Crush corners put up luxury condos

Hood been gone yo
No signs of quick recovery

Crills and welfare stunted elevation
Same poison brand new packaging

Unraveling mysteries as you unwrap
Reassemble thin leaves

Sending smoke signals to confused stars
Wondering where you are
Why are you calling me with your petty concerns

On otherside of world
Bombs dropped on baby showers
Baptism was burning even corpses got charred

Monsters in administration
Violence makes them villians

Who is being protected
Who has all the weapons

What will it take for Joe Saltine to learn lesson
See beyond complexion

Who is illuminati machine really oppressing
Nightly news with Brian Williams is your check in

4.29.2014

Descanse En Poesia, Tato Laviera


I think in Spanish/I write in English
                                                -Tato Laviera

Como puedo decir distracted distances en multiple lenguas
Future looking more mezclao

Gente from different countries all speaking Spanglish fluent
Primo we need to organize to get that power

Barrio loco shorties got that sour
Loudpack sonido en stereo

Dimelo how vecinos turned blancos
Got that banco popular

Except we are far from popular democratic
Declarations of pan tierra libertad

Subsidized that state will make you a slave through barcode
Scanned and watched

Mucho bochinche and porqueria on the block
Don’t want to start a resurrection of Young Lords Party
Pa’lante only a documentary
Fuzzy VHS ripped DVD sold for a dollar on 125th

Shift in mentality marketed by prison industrial complex
Owning music industry murdering ears
Ponce massacre of minds sterilized souls

Estrellas imperceptible reflections
Calles chain your confidence

Constellations have muffled conversations
Giving you answers before side smirk
Break off in tonterias captures complete totality

Ghetto griot grito orality caserio newscasters
Replay lowlights of vicious pobreza cycle
Vital signs show high blood pressure
Bad cholesterol prediabetic disaster running faster

Happy hours at sweatbox social clubs
Looking for love in all the long faces
Race for independence speed walking marathon
Mananas depend on milagros migrating where
Isla dreams can be reborn from project penthouses
Skyline matches frame of mente molded by palabras

Motivating your jibaro heritage
Teaching proper lessons forever holding onto
Ancestral love sin compromisa sacred promise

Push next generation con fuerza siempre amor
Confianza en our belleza
Elevation