BYPO PHOENIX
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CULTURAL HIPHOP MATRIX
country twang meets harlem swingan old town road to the world we begin marinating and meditatingfornicating and innovating enjoying the…
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NEON HYBRID
heart-felt passion and heart-felt pain intertwine and recombine inside this dancer’s braininspired by love inflected by ragewe rise to shatter…
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BARRICADE FREAKS
we are barricade freaks rocking prada in the streetwe style our rage in platinum shades shining strong and rolling deep…
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STACATTO IMAGINATION
my mind reverberates at hypomanic speed to the rhythms of the flickering flames–seven multicolored pillars of fire surround my sacred…
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URGENCY
manic zen from deep within fusing sin with oxygenpossibilities writhe and morph revealing potent visions usually accessed psychedelically i have…
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TRUST THE PROCESS
this is a poem about recoverya poem as metaphor for my journey towards synchronicity with my higher power none…
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ELECTRIC LIGHT
a flame explodes into view, so emblematic of our ragewe rise up to reconstitute a nation that was built to…
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MEMORIAM for IMAN
i just awoke from a dream about youi was walking with phyllis owens and we were talking about you and…
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SEX GOD
your eyes entrance, ensnare, and inspireConjuring waves of ecstatic passion that rise up ever higheryour body is a talisman, a…
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DYNAMO
there is subterranean strength in your body and volcanic energy in your mindthis is a seismic cosmic moment when everything…
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PYROMUSE
we first met in the months before our present political moment was definedthe post-election but pre-inauguration days of shock,…
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STIGMA
I am proud of how i show up for life on the manic depressive spectrumi am proud of my creativity…
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PSYCHEDELIC JESUS
light and sound become energized and fused into onewe see fractals in the moon and volcanic power in the sunpsychedelic…
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ANANSI
i am a vessel for sacred forces arising in a moment of unprecedented global perilwe must draw strength from our…
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TRIFECTA FIERCE
three sensuous bodies: three celestial auras–we aspire to cosmic connection to honor the rebels who came before us we…
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SPIRIT BROTHER
you inspire me with your mind, your loyalty, and your inner fireyour will to serve and resist makes me want…
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CUNNING ENEMY
i am only forty-one, but addiction has been a cunning enemy of my life for at least three decadesat first…
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KARMIC TRANSITION
i have tried to cry for days, just feeling that grief is the right feeling to feelemotive songs have helped…
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MORE WILL BE REVEALED
in your eyes is placed a power greater than all of their hoarded goldyour eyes are wormholes to a future…
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GLOBALIZE
before we had a globalized system, we had globalized energy:fires of wood or wax to which we made sacred…
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ANDROGYNE
luscious and radiantly non-binaryyou emanate potent spiritual forces from your divine apothecary you writhe and transform our world with your…
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ALIEN BALLET
\ limbs extend, attenuate, and bendthe scars of guilt and shame are healed yet again we celebrate life and the…
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SONG OF SURRENDER
here i am–humbly and blissfully imperfectreckoning with harm i have caused by striving to be accountable and doing work to…
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BECOMING JOY
the buddhist teacher tich nhat hanh taught me to see that we are like cloudsforever evolving and changing from one…
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SUN DRAGON
her voice soars, amplifying the resonance of visceral blood memoriesechoes of primordial pleasure emerging to coat our writhing bodies in…
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NOTICING
my god is in the noticingnoticing the moment between when i start to breathe and when i feel the first…