TKO

Technical Knock Out

Go to sleep one arm over eyes

All the lights on TV still blaring

Inheriting parental nods leaning on couches

Good groove early temper flare

Never learned to deal with anger effectively

Challenging self to become better

Surrounded by books magazines newspapers

Vinyl tapes CDs videos pictures

Various forms of media designed

To provide insight side profile PBS

Art of elocution practice BS jive and shuffle

How will you hustle legally

A little thievery just to get ahead

Quicker faster make sure your resume

Stands out from the pile

Qualifications guaranteed by best effort

Superb in ghetto gifted and talented

Now mediocre by college prep

Grind to study greater gain from ultimate sacrifice

Ancestors’ decisions to hold steady

To rocky dreams of mountains tragedy

Fountains of youth’s apathy

All hail illuminati majesty

That controls your powerful path

Where is the happiness during

Those funky cloudy days

Where the path out the maze

Is never absolutely clear

Hold your faith as your passion

Please don’t fall victim to fear in every thought

Behind every blink

Within each inch

Just a pinch is usually enough

Hard to add up when all mathematics

Terribly fuzzy

Who could ever love me

As much as those in closed quiet

20 Clason Point Lane

So much has changed

Hardly much remains except

What occurs between suenos that left you sweating

Regretting everything you never said

All that you wished you could have screamed

Randomly out loud while watching evening news

About a world we barely understand

How much we could do

With the tiny slice we have

Must grab attention with your GODLY ACTIONS

One day you wake up

You are old

How quickly does your VIDA happen? 

hallelujah

Gloria Gloria

Embrace your faith never fear

Certain melodies move you to point

Of tears trickling down face

Flowing like johnny pump deluge

Flood block with puddles of pain

Easy to walk over worry

Rhyme calmly find moments of tranquility

Qualities of quitters quite a few

How will you best spend your time

Past curfew with lights out

Juggling bubbling variety of vanity

Many ways of processing sanity

Screwed a little loose too much room to play

Can easily trip over extension

No pretending are you for real?

Won’t ever reveal what you can’t conceal

Your obnoxious is obvious

Procrastination participation within populace

In love with lack of consequence

Every utterance noxious nonsense

One way circling around twisted lane

So much depends upon

Who exits who remains

Exchange foreign of pleasantries

More comfortable with weaponry

No subliminals directly tell you

Death is what you selling me

No returns no money back

No concern while you burn

Away what you lack

Compounded by your slack

Hard horizon won’t let you iron out issues

What if imaginary pistils in palms

Blasted flowers from finger dandelion shots

Allow wishes instead of vicious revenge

End only momentary pause

Next breath next lifetime seeking source

Mainframe outline thousand approximate pixels

In fuzzy picture

Memory faded photographic

Turbo rapid fire

Can never press buttons fast enough

To activate next levels without defeating

Enemies flawlessly remarkably

When passed mic with infinite audience

Words are lost never simple to encounter

Complex divine design

Crooked line please don’t step outta

callate

no me diga

the block is so dead
the corner got a tag on its toe
the pigs want to put you
in a bookings blender
send you to a cell
to feast on social security slop
silence dances around the desk
begging you to choose me me me
to tell you the answer
might find this precisely puzzling
as the revolution keeps hustling
the next release date
where you will change everything
the next day will remain the same
false promises are worse
than staining the drawers
at least that might keep stinking
but your attempts disposing
the garbage without recycling
leave aftertaste of pussy incense
with each progressive bite
starting to get to your gut
all that fried shit giving you feelings
you don't want
close your eyes
after watching the skyline
reimagine the streets and alleys
replay the marathon circular
bringing you back where you started
origins planted in vacant lot
with perfect amount of sunshine
flourish with flowers
dandelions fancy way to bring
fantasies to grass roots
stops right at concrete curb
the river from the hydrant
is deep enough to drown
if you haven't held your air
your fears will shout you out
on the street but ignore you in public
pop shit in privacy of your potential
rewind the instrumental
so you can open up your heart
on the soulful beat

08 brown book exclusive

Cypher Equality Shadow (2008)

My mind distant
Shoulders cold
Soul frigid

People done burned enough bridges
I am not about to step

Outside of self seeking affirmation
Cannot inspire others for determination

Self degradation has become the new style
Today has become cooler to icegrill
Than smile

Confrontational non denominational
Tradition

Word is born like Goya beans
Tortured self portrait right in front of you

Uncomfortable when unaccustomed to
Natural fear

If everything is a lie
Then only the breeze is actual

Don’t be afraid to look yourself in the mirror
Don’t be afraid of the mess you made

Don’t hide your vulnerabilities
Rock them like new kicks

Stop running in place
Marathon massacre began last year

In this race
Efficient stamina to be the first one or last
At the finish line

Don’t spend the better part of your life
Asking why? Instead of how?

You can make the Atlantic waves crash
The Orchard Beach of your mind

Hold promises made to self
Most important

You fire sale pieces of times
To the highest quitter
In a concerted effort to procrastinate longer

Who have you been fooling?
The jig has been up
Everybody else knows the surprise
Except you

Who continue to exhibit
Warning signs of treason

Every second when claiming
To be crafting classic

You have simulcast your misery
To every world market

The planet needs some hope
Right now just in case you haven’t noticed

El mundo suddenly taken a turn
For the most gloomy

Got you walking round eyes closed
Bumping into your destiny

Who you swear in a dream
Told you she would take you
Out the hood forever

Maybe you missed the memo
But were only eligible for sweepstakes
But not guaranteed victory

So no
Don’t get bitter
Get on your grind
On your job

Wake up
Life won’t knock on the door
To sooth you out the nightmare

Wiping away doubt
Telling you everything will be alright

Nah
Far from it
Gentle kind sir

Shits and Giggles

Boldly declare your identity

With no apology compromise or negotiation

Take or leave me for who I is

Proclaimed power practice in your preaching

Reaching beyond levels unseen

Connect reality to your dreams

No need to be timid in your bold affirmations

Can’t spend time awaiting another

To fall in love with your future

More distant than past yesterdays added up

To complicated cumulative experience

Perseverance and dedication to push

Through the drowning drought of doubt

Ink expands

Silence contracts

Makes your voice give language

To life lived within parenthesis

Heavy guarded caution do not enter

Signs encouraging you to never

Step outside yourself in quest for love

That should exist without expiration

Inside glowing Corazon in tune

With earth’s spinning all of us dizzy

Finding balance in middle of jungle

Gym monkey bars seesaw us climbing to the top

Take your time sliding to get to the bottom

Of what’s really bothering me

What’s the remedy for all your temerity

Tuck that shit the city is brutal break a bottle

On the building for the baptism of lost souls in all those

Houses bulldozed in the footprint

Feeling insignificant

In front of grandeur of grand opening

More hoping with soaking

In rhythms of pastime paradise

Realize life ain’t half as nice

As any other binary digital artifice

What happens when there is no electricity

What torch will you spark

Who are you left with

Only goons and sharks after dark

Slowly coming to a stop

Where you have to stop

Where you have to transfer

Go beneath the surface

To find that lava

That will light your holy path

Too many questions to ask

Few will answer constant reminders

Of prior transgressions reactions to document

As much as possible while paranoid

Never quiet in midst of gritty noise

Pause to analyze the causes and effects

Affecting your peripheral surroundings

Pounding of temples means brain is full

Of many illicit thoughts running wild

Make it to finish line for

Breathtaking exhilaration

So hilarious

You could regurgitate right now

Just for shits and giggles

interrogation

What will you carve out the concrete

Tears don’t make beautiful fossils

Shift in breeze causes flare of nostrils

Hostile towards anyone bumping into profile

Hands full of hair clenched enough to rip out roots

Scuffles on the floor with sessions understeps

Ain’t too much time left

When you been counting every second

Adding up all the loose change

To chain along individual looseys

Giving you a funny feeling about

Where you headed

How much deception can you pocket

Pick your spoils

Where you show up camouflaged

With shadows of sandstorms

At Orchard nicknamed chocha

Loco how schools go in four year cycles

Of rebirth renaissance new ideas

Building on top of firm foundation

Ability to question deconstruct

King court jester on your mother tongue

Language distanced from ancient wisdom forgotten

Make limited edition knowledge wholesale

Might get your understanding

Shining over constant turmoil

Destroying us asunder

Providing the sounds for veteran fiends

Still got that good groove enough dance moves

To never lose focus keep awake even though

Eyes drift to lower raptures plateau

Feels so lovely comfortable oppression

Like hand me down holy socks

Sweaters keeping chill away in winter

Keep in touch with your inner sanctum

Sanctuary condominium confusion

Down payment on doubt so easy

Hold it on the arm when clouds exist in chest

Take another congested breath

Describe the blinking momentum

Pushing you to lay down

Push away from the table saying I’ll be right back

Knowing you already bounced

Hoping your ghosts will create something timeless

Context critical consciousness

Aware of all your criminal sin

Oblivious of the obvious

Ridiculous regular sentences describe daily battles

Much rather build than destroy

Leave pieces of your soul

All over the proximity

Don’t go with your death so willingly

i been writing

Dulzura de Sangre

Have your cake and eat it too

Until you blue with frosting

Dripping off face and windshield

Tell us how the wind feels like

Broken sky

Unify past present and future

Take a few moments to gather

Yourself and get in proper position

Each confession more

Painful and stressful than

Previous paragraph

Pass through so many clouds

Life was constantly overcast

Storm significant

How small are you next to a stoic century

How times have made man

Which man made time

Enough for you to visit

Invisible yous huddled low

Frantically burning at the end

Of the bench after practicing dribbling

Don’t ever feel mediocre

Look out for rainbow sprinkles

Dancing over your memories

Heard the trees sing all day

With the seasons’ shift in the air

Walked around myself

Because time travel is never easy

Actually I did plenty

Remember every snow shower

And thunder up and down the Lane

Almost a Bronx River

But no Johnny pump could produce

This deluge cutting

Down all the original foliage

Feels like there’s no place to play

Planes streak smoke

Across sharp cielo

If you fly while you stunt

Impossible to lay low

Colors will identify quickly

Better to move like a ghost

Evaporate swiftly

Squirrels forcing you back on point

Harder to remember your path

See young ones forgetting todays lessons

Faster than you could speak

So confused hesitate before they reach

Even to eat next meal

May not be promised

Hungry not too much

Leave some room for knowledge

Courage to share with confident others

Only sense hatred with sisters and brothers

There I am right in the middle

Trying to break up an everlasting fight

I tell them to find your voice

However scared they are

And scream as loud as you can

Learn your words

And just dive into that cold pool

Splish splash

Next cry for air in deep water

In the game movements

Must be precise enough

For you to score safely

Without any verbal crutch

Or emotional hiccups

Internal pursuit of hidden language

Mixed with everyday panic

Making harassment regular

Another competitor

Throwing soul through microphone

To let the world understand his depression

Throwing peanuts

At the sad elephant

Tragic clown

Don’t pass down any of your anguish

Hope next generation

Will never be troubled

I started writing

In front of two way

Truthful peacock mirror

Allowing you to see a future

Couldn’t be any clearer

Except blink

Fast forward

Right here

Tomorrow nearer