Street Kid

Brother can you spare a dime?
A cigarette?
A joke?
An arm? A leg?

I know I look like just another shit head kid to you- but I have needs too

Pains and aches
Doctors bills
Rent to pay

I have dreams, same as you.
I get nightmares too.

I wanna make my mother proud
I wanna walk tall too

I spend my quarters on coffee same as you

I cry I smile
I hurt I laugh

We are all in this together

I dont wanna be in your way...

But here I am.

Upper Cuts

Rolled Bills
Up the nose

"Don't think about it, here we go!"

Let loose
Grab Hold

"We're here to guide you."

Lines pointing you in the white direction
Any destination

"You'll enjoy it... we promise."

How I feel....

Pidgeons huddling in the park you know how I feel...

Puffed up and ruffled by the wind you know how I feel...

It's a cold world..
It's a cruel world..
It's another day for me..

And I'm feeling...

At the Bar Again

Faceless laughing people
Cheap beers flowing
Good tunes
Big shots
Huge guns
Stars all of them

Dirt Cheap
Made for looks
Music blaring
Dins deafining
Rattle, chatter
Friday night
Whose gunna say no

"HEY MAMA LOOKIN GOOD TONIGHT!"

Thanks! and you look like a friggin...
here I want to say rapist
maybe thats too harsh
but it's what comes to mind

idiot
idiot works

you look like a fucking idiot who doesn't know when to shut the fuck up.
who doesn't know when enough is too much.
who doesn't know when to close his mouth before his teeth get broken.
who doesn't know I've got enough rage in this body to knock him down and pray for mercy.

Brooklyn's finest on the Downtown L train at 10 PM- pitiful

Yes Papi I know how I look-
I always look fuckin good
Cause I check myself in the mirror before I leave
I see a confident chica staring back at me
what do you see? cause i see a sloppy mother fucker.
Cause I see: a rapist, molester, dickless loser, tiny brained fuck.
No: I see a muthafucka with no respect for the higher sex

Did your mama teach you to act like that?
Did she feed you bullshit and teach you to act like a worthless worm?
or did you figure that out on your own?

When you and your bros, dudes, brothers, and man folk when you call after a girl
follow her a little
say excuse me- come over here
put your hands where they don't belong
drop quarters to see if she'll pick them up so you can check out her butt

When you call her a bitch for not running over and sucking your dick
you make yourself look like a fucking prick
you look like
worthless
useless
garbage

So disposable- my only reaction is to call you a RAPIST and laugh in your face
You disgrace the human race
and you will be judged.

Your disposition aint so sunny

Hello up there
It's me, crushed under your boot heel
I'm starting to get tired of your hierarchy
Could you please- get the fuck off me?

Hello up there
It's me, squashed under your thumb
I'm starting to get tired of your ideas of identity
Could you please- get the fuck off me?

Hello up there
It's me, caught in the net of your social scheme
Could you please, GET THE FUCK OFF ME?!

LET ME GO FREE
or I'll start to scream
tell the story of my injustice
tell of the destruction of my innocence

How your inventions of internet and TV's
brain washed me
into thinking I've gotta be
someone whose not me

someone who'd rather be
suffocated by your design of sexuality,
of humility,
their ideas on how the masses of humanity ought to be

that is not me- and never will be
I'm tired of your hands on my body
Your fingers trying to pick my brain
call me insane for sleeping in,
loosing the job for which I had been trained

I refused to remain part of your machine
I will release my brothers and sisters
Give them pitch forks and pens
and we will dismantle you with
your boot heels and thumbs
use your trash cans to make drums
howl at night to spread the word

the truth will be heard.

drinking beers
wasting away
trying to remember when
life was worth a damn
was it ever worth it?
was it ever a good investment?
pbrs to pass the time away
whiskey to make the pain go away
cigarettes to pass the time away
wasting breath
wasting away
wasting talents
scorn filled faces
sorrow filled eyes
furrowed brows
pouted lips
batting eyelashes
teeth grinding out a grin
facial muscles straining a smile
foolish maneuvers at faking
happiness, interest, intrigue,
genuine doesn't live here anymore.