Peace Maestro. Props to El Profe and Capicu

Something Simple

After John Rodriguez

Mama asked

You out there

Writing or puffing

Poet on park bench paranoid

Can’t avoid being naked

Santos scream

You better slide quickly or

Suffer reefer percussions

Scribble noise

So proud to be Story Avenue

Sound View rough drafts

Noble nightmares

Left block any chance could

Even though gone

Carry Clason Point in backpack

Move in silence

To the head so loud

You still smoking

Shorties still bugging

Homies grew up

Brothers outta town

Papa’s clubbing

Mama’s moving

Body weary

Bleak pastel shades

Steaming heavy

Too early in morning

Love’s hangover

Lonely shadows

Slow dancing diablos

Throwing piropos at cielo

Charm a silver lining out cloudy sky

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

MC Tipo Loco Mixtape Vol Ill

Make it Rain Journals

                After RS

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

Buns

Cheekage

What do you speak of

Nalgas y damage to confidence

Conditioned to accept complacency

Limited agency with unrealistic expectations

Staged conquest demise at climax

Don’t be sack of stinking excrement

Fragrant evidence dramatic reenactment

Faces and names changed to protect legacy

Smudged body grease eye water

Simple answers complex questions

Plato didn’t own patent on perfection

Shadow original irreplaceable form

Calmest storm in chaos

Comatose despite carnage

Roadside carne sizzle roasted asphalt

Mountains don’t move

Billy goats gently bounce valley breeze

Who do you plan to please with those weak degrees

Fancy ink on parchment

Quickly started hastily ended

Center of displeasure hard to measure

Crawl in search of what you left behind

Difficult experience brilliant chances

Separate expectations welcome elevation

Premeditated mystery confounded

Compelled to tune in

While magnifying glass zooms out

Skinny figure cast largest shallow

Worm at middle of putrid apple

Earliest quenching hunger

Latest comprehending highly visible

Living miracles testifying redemption

Remembrance of blessed elders

Walked down slippery roads

So be wealthy

Tender molecules precious atoms

Who could fathom such a wonderful life

Smile shows your peoples beauty

What a glorious sight

zone squad

Smoke as much as you breathe

Aura is lonely cloud of broken benches

Once play area closes at dusk

What you doing past midnight

Empty bottle your exclusive mixtape on blast

Stretch marks on gut

Grey hairs past neck tat

Mami calling you back in house

So you better get the dipping

Hunger dripping funky fangs

All you do is hang around vacant block

Looking for quick sale

Soak up chuleta thigh extra salsa

Bag up on chess board

Throw your blunt at the speaker

For where you at forced to accept

Cornerstore munchie nutrition

Malt liquor massages liver

Job is reading JOB working with your lot

Better what you got

Beloved wobble brain bobble

Hard to sit still like ground you stuck on

Clason Point Gardens standing next to

6 dope boys 5 shottas 4 suckheads 3 Thots

2 Dutches 46 2 story houses

on ghosts of Army barracks

43^rd at end of lane

OG Sour Uptown Haze all on deck

Whatever you want

Absorb apathy at speed of Rhino Pellet

And Rad bubblin in rusted gut

Swollen eyes numb to naivete

Innocent ignorance brilliant belligerence

Who will hear this besides mundane bsides

Men done before teenagers

Dee Lush Vudu wrinkled Sick Rick

Brush teeth with White Owl for breakfast

Fast break at Big Back Park

Monkey bar hoops hold hood throwbacks

How easily were you allowed to commit

Concurrent fuckshit more frequent on the ropes

More funny faces laughter covering your loud beads

Please believe yourself if no one else

Everyone will have opinion to deliver as fast as

Pigs can snatch your freedom preserve their weak position

How much can you listen to bullshit conversation

To let world turn deep within your dizzy doneness

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