BYPO PHOENIX

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MEMORIA: a tribute to Brother Manning Marable

stop to pray stop and stare pain can teach or destroy night and day love and rage rule the streets fill a void six feet deep a body laid grief runs wild children play set love free this sacred day make a choice to change your ways friendship bleeds love […]

A MONSTA RIFF

Monster boy ate my heart Ate my love tore it apart Left me dancing in the dark Bathed in tears like noah’s ark Ate my heart then ate my brain Took my love and gave me pain Sucked my blood and made it rain Cold case love gone insane Te […]

DEFEND THE DISTRICT

chocolate city burning bright rule the night – don’t fight the light GOP BIGOTS >> on the attack what do we do – DMV fights back for congressional swine DC is a test tube for conservative theories and twisted rules forget about democracy this is D f-in C AIN’T no […]

Escuela de Asesinos

memoria y resistencia luchando por la justicia evitando los ejercitos entreniando por los fascistas poder no escucha a los que no estan gritando poder no escucha a los que no estan marchando escuela de asesinos barbarianos y fascistas escuela de las americas pero solo por los con riquesas estamos exigiendo […]

ARSENAL: a study in urban hieroglyphics

AGIT PROP street art HITS THE MIND hits the heart write it down MAKE IT POP make it rhyme MAKE IT ART I PAINT because i am LOVE AND HATE fast friends rockstar DO IT RIGHT went too far LOST THE NIGHT NEOLITHIC pancreatic SO PRODUCTIVE and emphatic hieroglyphics DEEPLY […]

THE SORDID ARCHITECTURE OF URBAN HIEROGLYPHICS

solitude and loneliness make me miss raw happiness angels and demons blood spit and semen pirates and conquistadors show me what pain is for digging in but holding on trying hard but being wrong its a song not a sin lots of gin with oxygen dialectic catalytic preorgasmic analytic cold […]

AGENTS OF KARMA

In the beginning was the word And the word was death Or maybe life or death to all life And ADAMA was born Toy soldier of divine clay Neither man nor woman just fine in its way ADAMA was cleaved in two by fire Lightning strike from Zeus on high […]

LAS RAICES DE LA ESPERANZA

queremos la justicia no la poli-migra gritamos si se puede dicen no se pudo nuestras historias son nuestras victorias el poder de l’amor es mas que lo de odio queremos la justicia nos dan arizona queremos la reforma justa y humana su idea de reforma se abusa la idioma raices […]

NUCOMINTERN

born from rubble carved in steel revolution is for real ground to powder grown in dirt copulation shouldn’t hurt red mafia rising night and day scoping out the cia flying high and burning bright BANKSYSTYLE we rule the night socialist or anarchist flip your wrist and raise your fist black […]

BANKSYSTYLE: Monster Family Anthem

gaga’s back rollin hard takin’ names takin’ charge rollin deep monster family spreading love losing sleep born this way queer power seize the day milk the hour love and rage guilt and shame make me cry scream my name bypo’s rollin’ banksy style taggin’ walls crackin’ files street army underground […]

BOMBS IN BENGHAZI

a hundred cruise missiles launched today 1 million each- made in the USA the ghosts of those dead in the war on Iraq turn in their graves- show us their backs how better to mark the anniversary of war than by starting another and bombing Libya this is not about […]

INSURGENTS RISE: a DMV anthem

sycophantic miscreants oligarchic porno pimps running wild and flying free gentrifying the DMV developers run this town politicians sell us out wasting public property selling out the DMV corruption reeks in the wilson building seeping through and all consuming the people’s voices drowned by millions raised to keep the racket […]

Contending with Grey

i feel grey creeping in again melancholy next of kin solitude breeding sin isolation sinking in i long for something visceral to rouse my pulse and shake my skull to give me something new to say respite to pain so dull and grey the world feels bleak and devestating my […]

DIRTY LITTLE FREAK

I’m a dirty little freak I’ll meet you on the street Go home to your place And you’ll taste me for a week I’ll go down on your floor I’ll rock you to the core Bust out before dawn Leave you screaming wanting more We’re dirty little freaks we make […]

EMANCIPATION

emancipate your primal hate give in to love and make a break flash your eyes and bare your teeth monster beats are sheathed beneath polluted skies and broken streets juxtapose this fantasy with creeping pop reality raise a flag and take the streets remind yourself of power unleashed but keep […]

MESSAGE FROM THE UNDERGROUND

bypo’s rollin’ psychotropic bombed that wall before you noticed raise your fist and keep it focused hit the streets and roll like roaches street art flying cyber-wired scarred barbed and crudely filed press on nails branded black spray paint bombed on cyber-blast hitting streets and rolling deep showing love and […]

SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY

Dirty streets strewn with broken glass Hydrants spewing hydra’s ash Hurrying along and walking past Homeless vets on cyberblast Armor up trying not to care But sucked in by this woman’s stare I dig deep and try to share Change that is my metro fare A city ruled by sycophants […]

DEEP

You are in deep I can’t shake you You have power You probably don’t even want I rise and fall To the erratic rhythm Of your exhalation An absent glance Sends shivers of pain Racing through my veins Nerves taut I try to breathe And let go But the roots […]

HOSTILITY

I imagine now That hitting something Or someone Would be an immense relief Anger courses through my mind Exploding irrationally Over perceived acts of inconsideration I imagine blood Probably my own Demanding a response I wonder if hospitalization Would bring relief Or at least concern These emotions are toxic And […]

ADDICTION

Its as easy To abuse a person As to abuse a substance To become addicted To a particular prism Through which to view oneself I breathe deeply And try to let go Of the compulsion I feel To connect incessantly And learn to carve independent space For my own thoughts […]

PETRIFIED

Not knowing how you are But fearing the worst I am paralyzed by ghosts of past tragedies Anger, guilt, and shame are toxic emotions Constricting breath and repelling human contact I pray to any spirit that will listen For your safety As I write I feel the threat of tears […]

BECOMING PHOENIX

To write again is a struggle A struggle to give voice to months Entombed in passivity Lacerated by loneliness Bored to tears by the endless drumming rhythm Of isolation Awakened again I hear angels inside Quickening the blood Recharging adrenaline Reemerging to find friends eager to embrace A revived personality […]

Reflections on Lost Time

Psychic pain consumes my brain Haunting caustic always the same Rhythms change but grey remains The color cloaking blood and veins Walking wounded I’m ashamed Of all the things I’ve done in vain Of all the promise laid to waste Of foolish dreams I wish erased Flying high I fell […]

LINES and BARS

accepting rejection dissecting connection i seek absolution but crave affection alone in a jail cell trapped in a living hell pain my new master learning rules faster limiting creativity haunted by divinity battered by humility ready to live simply humiliated by reality shocked by my capacity still seeking evolution but […]

ODE to a HOUSE BEAT

Drums beat bodies writhe Strobe lights seduce the eyes Teeth grind lips defy Controlling egos undermined Bass drives treble flies Little monsters dip and dive Boys strip grown men cry Drag queen divas rule the night Crafty hooks are cyber-wired Churning souls and touching skies Emotions soar as vocals rise […]