June 2010
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I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention. I’m so poor I...
– Jimi Hendrix
Can't Do It
You really can’t rush art. Well….you can, but it comes out like ass. I tried to write a poem cause I wanted to, but I didn’t feel like it. Or I wanted to write a certain poem, but the feelings I write with wrote me a poem I didn’t want to see. The product and quality of insincere creativity has proven to me that it isn’t good to try to make something you...
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I give ya all the diamonds and money.
But you can’t break my heart....
– Mos Def, “Workers Comp.”, The Ecstatic
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Freestyle Bars
Eating frosted mini wheat
You can not defeat
The purpose that I bring
To the round table of kings
Cause I’m Isaac Howland
Did you ring?
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I'll Stay
Tomorrow is only a day a way.
dont you have some spare time
that you could throw away?
Would it be such a crime
if you let me stay?
If every rhyme were a minute
i’d be here for today.
if every poem was an hour
I’d have the month of May.
But since life is how it is
My writing doesn’t control time’s tick
Or the ways you operate,
that make me feel sweetly sick.
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We tell god thanks
Ya’ll tellin us god don’t rank that’s why...
– Mos Def, “Revelations” from The Ecstatic
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