wack love poem that’ll probably disappear in a minute
Current mood: blah

PS: I don't mind critique

Some times

Our greetings pass over noggins

More occupied with breakfast or toys

Missing the tension

And I am reminded of the book of Judges

How the night held us apart like Samson

You snatched me from my dreams round midnite

Toyed with me till 4 -

And then "hello" me in the morning like you weren't there

Eden

Lets make a deal

From now on you let me sleep and

I won't look at you like I'm insane

Goddess

Let's make a promise

To stay young & save bubble gum

On the backs of our hands

to sidestep worry lines

& only exhale with smiles

now look at me

Mona Lisa

you talk too much

Here, take this tongue

Use it as a metronome

across your flesh synchronize

my beating heart to your breath

we love like double-dutch

not knowing exactly when to jump so

Mami

Let's play a new game

I will watch you shower

Call me Norman

Pretend I'm not here &

I will take notes

Learn your silhouette through the steam

steep in desire at one hundred and six degrees

Memorizing the path of every stream

Shhhh I'm studying

And when it's time I'll step in

To soak you further

fingers working your curves like scrubbing bubbles

tongues creating a different kind of flow 

then pressing skin to tile I'll

Grab and stab you till you scream

Bloody murder

Have you any idea

Who called the police - Sir

There's only Worship Service here

Her temple is the Lords house

I entered slowly with reverence

and began with tenderness

But by the 3^rd movement

She was Ravaged Sir

I promise - I will be careful with her

This rhy-thm-ic feeling-you-get-won't-stop

I know that you feel it when your

vocal tones drop

I always look away when

My gaze pops buttons

Cuz I'm naughty by nature

Not 'cuz I hate ya

I'm treacherous in this -

As lightning slaps against the skies

I count 2 Mississippi's before

Moans spread out like thunder at each clap

Flashes will echo through you from your rivers center

till tomorrow at work wondering why your foot keeps

shaking like that

It's no secret that I ride the beat  

(And you got a drum that won't quit)

It's like mount Sinai in winter

The climb is too glorious

And every so often we pause to

feel it's beauty

Taste each others smiles

then push on across it's body-

That spot behind your knees

The point at your neck right there

your number is 34 

I've counted your knotted hairs

Licking across my chest

As they showered over me

This strand called to me when I 1^st saw you dance

These strands cling to hands like honey

Those strands shimmy at every pump 

- and these strands will become your reins

we wrestle with climax like we don't wanna lose

You would buck with pleasure if not for the pain

Your head back teeth bared vocals exclaim

Heralding the coming of his angel

Impaled by the flesh of my flesh

Swelling inside of you

Like deep breaths

I inspire repetition

Stretching & twisting to the whims of

Imagination

we can fuck till

the truth explodes and

fantasies leak from your eyes

This is not just sex it's a

Conscious daily decision to love

And despite all this shit-talkin' you know 

ours is silent

Like the wind

you won't see it but

You can just feel it

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life exercise
Current mood: focused
Category: Life

1)Take a sheet of paper & write  your FULL name on the top, along with whatever nicknames you call yourself or what others call you.

2)In any order, write down 20 of the most important events that have affected your life, good or bad.

3)Next, quickly get rid of the 10 LEAST important ones, don't think about it for too long - just scratch them out.

4)Take the 10 that you have left and put them in chronological order, from the day of your birth up until this moment.

Now, if you were honest with yourself,  what you are looking at should be a pretty accurate snapshot of your life - at a glance, of course. These are your triumphs & rock-bottom moments,  the source of your strengths, or areas that you need to possibly work on. I did this exercise last week at Youth Nats with my team & it was a real eye-opener...


now here's the good part - pick one & write a piece about it


Pic!    

Currently listening : Dancing for Mental Health Release date: 2004-02-10

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on my soapbox again
Current mood: argumentative
Category: News and Politics

So I Read the Washington (Confederate-ass-Newspaper) Times sometimes just to stay on point with how heads on a different frequency are thinking.  Well I read this article (see below)
and it gets me so amped, that I can't hold back - I'm looking for the line...
so I wrote a answer to hers  - be sure you read hers FIRST - my response is below that


http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080415/EDITORIAL/269422633/1013

What were they thinking?

By Tara Wall
April 15, 2008

It may no longer be politically correct to cast a child in the corner with a dunce cap, (I am aging myself), but I find the primitive punishment applicable for a few of today's social and political elite. For three particularly egregious acts of stupidity this week, dunce awards must go to: Jimmy Carter, the NAACP and Barack Obama.

Former President Carter is planning to fly across the globe for a very important a trip this week. Is it to end world hunger? No. Work on a cure for HIV/AIDS? No. Meet with a State Department-declared terrorist group? Ding, ding, ding! You got it. Not only does Mr. Carter have plans to meet with the exiled leader of Hamas during his 10-day visit to the Middle East, but it's at a time when Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are fragile, and at the beginning of Passover week for the Jewish people. What timing.

Just in case it slipped your mind, Hamas is best known for its multiple suicide bombings, attacks directed against civilians and the Israeli military. The Hamas charter also calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. So it's no surprise, that the State Department and Bush administration have warned Mr. Carter against the "detrimental" meeting. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told CNN: "We don't believe it is in the interest of our policy or in the in the interest of peace to have such a meeting." Nor most Americans for that matter.

I'm no foreign affairs expert but, what on earth is Mr. Carter thinking? If for the sake of argument one could offer any feasible justification for a meeting with people who live to kill, what on God's green earth does Mr. Carter think he will actually accomplish? Peace? How would he start the conversation? And what would he say to Israelis while pacifying a group intent on their annihilation? Calls for the Democratic Party and its presidential candidates to rein in Mr. Carter (or at least denounce his dunce-like behavior), have fallen on deaf ears. What an abomination.

The next award, goes to the NAACP for, get this, inviting — yes, inviting — the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to deliver the keynote address at its biggest annual fundraiser, the Freedom Fund Dinner, in Detroit on April 27th. It is reportedly the place to be for presidents, politicians and social elites who want to address what is arguably the largest black audience in one sitting. Several issues should be raised about such obvious, if not blatant, hypocrisy by the NAACP:

1) As if Detroit doesn't have enough problems already (a sagging economy, high unemployment and a mayor who is under a multi-count indictment for perjuring himself about an affair with his chief of staff). Now you can add: The salacious "hip-hop" city opens its arms for bigots.

2) The "civil rights" organization is now on the record as supporting an anti-American, anti-white, black separatist who makes no apologies for his beliefs. That should go a long way in solidifying the organization's anti-discrimination efforts — huh?

I find it quite perplexing that news headlines are referring to Mr. Wright as "controversial, embattled, fiery and rebellious," but how about racist or bigoted? Those accurate descriptions seem to be missing from the headlines and the NAACP's vernacular. Its Detroit branch president did tell BlackAmericaWeb.com that Mr. Wright is, "an accomplished lecturer and religious leader whose appearance offered an opportunity for us all to go to school, to learn what goes on within our communities that we may not understand." I think we all understand what a racist is. Shame on the NAACP for actually courting this man.

The last dunce award goes to Sen. Barack Obama for once again "not wording" what he meant in the "right way," when he addressed a group in California on Sunday. Mr. Obama was referring to jobless small town Pennsylvanians when he said: "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion... as a way to explain their frustrations." At at later event, Mr. Obama tried to "explain" what he meant without taking back what he said. I say, he said exactly what he meant. He just forgot that he wasn't quite ready to reveal how liberal and elitist he really is. As Charles Krauthammer so aptly put it over the weekend, "It's what you'd expect from a latte liberal." Mr. Obama also forgot that while his words play well among his liberal California comrades, those Reagan Democrats are the same kind of "people" he will have to answer to about his condescending remarks when he gets to Pennsylvania.

Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain didn't hesitate to pounce from their perches and weigh in on the gaffe, while Mr. Obama's surrogates were in full spin-cycle on the Sunday morning shows. Tom Daschle and Bob Scrum shared the same "single-mother, poor background, and Mr. Obama really understands small town pain" talking points on different shows. Mr. Daschle dug the ditch deeper when he said what Mr. Obama meant was that these kind of people are "More susceptible to divisive politics." More susceptible? So now they're too stupid to understand what's good for them? If that isn't even more elitist and patronizing.

The man who declares that "words matter" seems to be having a lot of problems with his as of late. Dunce-like too, since Mr. Obama also finds himself "clinging" to religion.

In response to Tara Walls' "What were they thinking?"  op-ed piece from the Washington Times Tuesday, April 15^th 2008, I  thought I'd write in to remind the right of how communication works: 

First we listen.

Then we respond to the person speaking.

Then we listen some more.

It's that simple

Ms Walls,

I'm not sure if America is ready for straight-talk & actual discourse but let's try a lil: 

For all of your forehead-slapping, scolding & talk of liberal dunce-caps, a fundamental tenet of civilized society (and the most beautiful part of a democracy) was discarded, which simply put, is: in order to understand your fellow man, you must listen to him.

Instead, 3 dunce caps were handed out for those engaging in discourse and allowing others to speak their mind, simply because – you abhor their ideas. 

Let's start with President Carter – the man who helped bring about the Egypt/Israel peace  accord some 30 years ago.  Mr. Carter is a foreign affairs expert – something that you & I can both admit we are not.  The State Department and Bush administration calls meeting with Hamas detrimental, but engaging in conversation with someone who would otherwise be trying to kill, maim or destroy is at the very least, keeping them from doing so at the moment, & at best…

…Oh, look – another peace treaty being signed.     

Quoting President Carter himself he said,

"I'm just trying to understand different opinions and communicate, provide communications between people that won't communicate with each other…"

The alternative is…waiting for Condoleeza Rice to meet up with our few harmless Palestinian allies, but NOT the groups who really need dialogue.

 
Your next dunce cap went to the NAACP for their invitation to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to come speak at their Detroit fundraiser. 

This next set of truths you already know, but probably weren't expecting to come from me.

Here they are:

The NAACP is a racist organization & Jeremiah Wright has some racist beliefs.

Whoa…let's try another:

The Washington Times has several racist writers & Geraldine Ferraro made a racist comment about Barack Obama.

Man, that felt good!

Racism means literally, to make decisions & opinions based in whole or in part on race.

We all need to get comfortable with discussing & ADMITTING our racial attitudes.

There are various "whys" and valid feelings connected to ALL of the truths I just stated, it's up to us to decide if we want to talk honestly about them.

Maybe we can start by going to the Freedom Fund Dinner & listening to the Reverend, huh?

To me, the saddest moment in recent American political history was the Barack Obama/Reverend Wright controversy. Senator Obama turned a possible political crisis into a honest chance for better racial understanding by challenging every American to search themselves & to start a dialogue surrounding our fears & beliefs on race.  All we had to do was respond to one another, but in the days immediately following his momentous speech, pols were only yammering about if his words would "play well" among potential voters & "damage control".  Luckily, there were a few sharp enough to see through those smokescreens to focus on the truth in his words and not "if they worked".   Another missed chance to come together?  We'll see – I doubt MLK could've done a better job.

Interesting true fact:

Had he not been assassinated, Martin Luther Kings sermon to be delivered the following Sunday at Ebeneezer was titled "Why America may go to Hell".

 
God Damn America, indeed…

     
It kills me how this administration seems to think that shutting others out & closing them off from all our American glory is an effective enough tactic in getting others to do what we want.

Hmmmmm - let's cease all communications…

Didn't work in WWII

Didn't work with Cuba

Didn't work in Waco

Won't work with the IRS

Won't work in a marriage

It's just a bad idea

The lines of communication must always be kept open

Otherwise, only bad things can happen.

Thirdly, your dunce cap to Obama for the "bitter" comments to me only further sheds light on the man's willingness to speak truths & the other two camp's determination to play politics rather than speak to the ills that people are facing.  There ARE jobless small town people clinging to guns & religion, just as there are homeless urban people clinging to drugs. There is truth to both statements and he has reflected both on record before – but twisting the meaning of his words in any way amounts to the same old divisive politics.  I do realize though that he is in the dirty game to win & so he must play carefully from now on because as you've already pointed out, his "words matter".  The proof?  We are all hanging on every single word he utters.  

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Big Up to my Nigga Sam Goody
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Music

Woodstockin' white folks involved –

Black man get on your JOB!

Dave of De La Soul, "Verbal Clap"

Now I get it

Dust collects on things that don't move

Neglected pets will abandon you

All metals eventually tarnish

Do not water a plant & it will die

Maggots will incubate on rotting flesh

Any relationship not nourished will suffer

And the 5^th element of hip-hop is white people

I understand now

These are facts

Money is unsanitary

No lightbulb can burn forever

Good craftsmanship is valuable, but

All man-made things will pass away 

Diamonds are rocks

Too much air will pop a balloon

Too much water will break a dam

Get enough of either & it will flatten a mountain

Fire burns

And the 5^th element of hip-hop is white people

It's finally clear to me

A neglected child will run away

An abused spouse will lash back

Paint will crack & flake from burners & tags on brick will fade to black

B-boys who refuse to uprock will forget how and eventually stop

These aren't opinions – they're in the books

History will never be rewritten

Robert Johnson died broke

Elvis is forever the king

Vinyl records will not spin themselves

Microphones squeal when not handled properly

Emcees who paint will blood will forever live with the feedback

And that's why the 5^th element of hip-hop is white people...

Only a fool would give away a diamond to buy back his own excrement

And only a genius could make you wanna buy the shit

I have the Eminem tee shirt to prove it 

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Noggins revenge
Current mood: confident

Yeah

I know my head is big

It takes a full two seconds for smiles to fill my face

Enough time to wonder

Is it gas?

Pain?

OH! He's smiling!

I've got a dome

that screams for tape measure

That hats can't accommodate

That begs for comedy

Teachers love me

for my circumference

diameter

& sheer volume

Stetsons avoid me

For much the same reason &

Mr. Potato heads pop out their eyes

to avert their gaze

In shame when I walk in the room

 I once loved a woman with a head like mine

She should be thankful we never had children

Her episiotomy would've looked like a C section

See, this head's got girth

Wattage be damned

Cabinet speakers go mute when (………)  blocks them

My head is a black hole of sound

I give great head

Because I give lots of it

Head bands scream in agony at the

Easter island proportions

You would want to be stranded on an island with me

Because pilots can always see a balloon of hair

from a mile up

Damn right I'm smart

See, I've thought it out

sat up front nuff times to know

my ass should be in the back 

Got broke down enough times in public

to learn how to make fun of myself

before they can

So now I look at my poor poor son

and this massive trait he's inherited

Hopeful that he'll get his mothers hair

Knowing that one day I'll have to wipe his tears & tell him,

"Son, I know it's a burden

but I'm sure we're supposed to have this shit

'cuz we're the only ones

With the shoulders

To carry it" .

Currently listening : The Revival By Tony! Toni! Toné! Release date: 20 April, 1990

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The rhymer, the witch & the horoscope...
Current mood: listless
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

I opened up for Ani DiFranco the other day....

well not ACTUALLY...It was really my boy Buddy Wakefield who's touring  the country with her, but he asked me to spit on stage with him at the 9:30 Club for their sold out DC show, so I did.    

While waiting to go on backstage, I got a reading by  one of the background vocalists, a beautiful lady named Ally who just so happened to be a honest to god Witch. Now, I aint no wiccan or nothing, but I do TRY to stay open-minded. She didn't do any fancy tricks, she simply wrote down my birthdate, time & place of birth, asked about recent dreams, as well as a few family & relatonship questions.... and she then proceded to tell me about myself in a way I haven't heard from anyone except my Mama.

I'm about to make some changes.

I'm still trying to process it all, and I promise I'll share it as soon as I make sense of it, but in the meantime, and in honor of my  fellow Sagittarians,  here's our overall horoscope...  



Inquisitive and energetic, the Sagittarian is the traveler of the zodiac. Their philosophical, broad-minded approach to life motivates them to wander far and wide in the search for the meaning of life. Extroverted, optimistic and enthusiastic, it can be almost impossible to keep the Sagittarian down. They love change. In fact, change is essential for this sign to feel their best

Friends and Family
Whether it's stimulating conversation, or a hike through the mountains, you can expect this sign to be surrounded by friends. They're a ton of fun, and downright wacky at times. They love to laugh and to get everyone around them going. Sagittarians make friends from around the globe, enjoying the various takes on life and culture. They're generous and are not ones to hold a grudge. Anyone who can sit a spell and talk about the deeper things in life will suit a Sagittarian just fine. They make friends easily and remain steadfast through the years. When it comes to family, the Sagittarian is dedicated and willing to do just about anything. Freedom and independence are extremely important for this outgoing sign. Providing these traits aren't infringed upon, all relationships go well.

Career and Money
"Visualization" is the keyword for the Sagittarian. When this sign sees something as possible in their minds, they will go to great lengths to rally enough people to make it happen. Straightforward, they don't usually mince words about what they want, and they seem to know exactly what needs to be said in a given situation. They make excellent salespeople, and it's even better when this involves travel. When the Sagittarian gets a sense of the big picture, they'll work night and day to reach a goal.

A variety of tasks and a dynamic atmosphere favor the Sagittarian. Careers such as travel agent, photographer, explorer, artist, realtors, ambassador, and import/export trader all suit this free spirited personality.

Fun-loving Sagittarians enjoy making - and spending - money. Considered the luckiest of the zodiac, they don't worry too much about where the next buck is coming from. Sagittarians are risk takers and highly optimistic, trusting in the universe to provide what is needed. Money management tasks will bore the Sagittarian to tears, so getting a bookkeeper or accountant is the best plan in order to stay on top of what's coming and going

Love and Sex
This fiery sign is playful and loves to have fun with their lovers. Passionate, expressive, and willing to try just about anything, partners who are equally outgoing are best suited to the Sagittarian. There's a fine line between sex and love for this sign. Their love of change and variety can bring a lot of different faces to the bedroom. But when it comes to love, that's an entirely different thing. Once taken, the Sagittarian is loyal, true-blue, and devoted. Mates for this sign need to be intellectual, sensitive, and expressive for the best results. As the key phrase for this sign is "I understand," having a good sense of how their partner thinks is quite important.
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Currently listening : Wild Seed -- Wild Flower By Dionne Farris Release date: 25 October, 1994

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