......

the unseen

the steel cage of the courts
keeps the hopes
of a few alive
as they drive towards the hoops
hoping for the fast break
that gets them out of the hood
the reality of the surroundings
highlighted as the ball
bounces off the broken glass
and empty syringes
that pocket their existance
mocks them and the dreams
of a better life
gunfire breaks out
blood soaks into the asphalt
dying
his eyes focus
on a needle that lies before him
he never shot up
anything more than a basketball
yet drugs killed him all the same

tenaciousA

flew like spilt burgundy
from a colbalt glass
past ivory tinkers
onto oil-bound sand and gravel
and the lights
get vacuumed up
to the sky
to the greater thang going on up there
while a woman with her own climate
cry
there go the neighborhood

shit, who she trying to play?

neighborhood been gone


put enough people
in a small enough space
add poverty
bigotry
and fear

and bang

bang

bang

bang motherfucking bang

you dead

he dead

she dead

and ain't nothing nobody gonna do about it

Being Enlightened

Broken
Mangled
A tattered shell
Of what once was
A beautiful life
It was given unselfishly
It was taken needlessly
Like a candy swiped from the corner store

the unseen

the child passes the store
sees the candy in the jar
slows his step to get a closer look
mom tugs his arm
yanks his ass back up to her
as they hurry to their destination
an alley at 5th and broadmoar
there a man in a denim jacket
hands her a bag of rock
she hands him her child
as the wimpers of his violation
echo from the darkness
she lights her pipe
shuts her eyes
inhales her way
to forgivness

justam

Originally posted by the unseen
the child passes the store
sees the candy in the jar
slows his step to get a closer look
mom tugs his arm
yanks his ass back up to her
as they hurry to their destination
an alley at 5th and broadmoar
there a man in a denim jacket
hands her a bag of rock
she hands him her child
as the wimpers of his violation
echo from the darkness
she lights her pipe
shuts her eyes
inhales her way
to forgivness

This image is nightmarish......:(

Being Enlightened

Originally posted by the unseen
the child passes the store
sees the candy in the jar
slows his step to get a closer look
mom tugs his arm
yanks his ass back up to her
as they hurry to their destination
an alley at 5th and broadmoar
there a man in a denim jacket
hands her a bag of rock
she hands him her child
as the wimpers of his violation
echo from the darkness
she lights her pipe
shuts her eyes
inhales her way
to forgivness

"She puts the kid away
And she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life
And what she's done to it
That's one more kid
Who'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool

Keep on rocking in the free world"