BYPO PHOENIX
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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…
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EMANCIPATION
emancipate your primal hate give in to love and make a break flash your eyes and bare your teeth monster…
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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…
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SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY
Dirty streets strewn with broken glass Hydrants spewing hydra’s ash Hurrying along and walking past Homeless vets on cyberblast Armor…
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DEEP
You are in deep I can’t shake you You have power You probably don’t even want I rise and fall…
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HOSTILITY
I imagine now That hitting something Or someone Would be an immense relief Anger courses through my mind Exploding irrationally…
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ADDICTION
Its as easy To abuse a person As to abuse a substance To become addicted To a particular prism Through…
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PETRIFIED
Not knowing how you are But fearing the worst I am paralyzed by ghosts of past tragedies Anger, guilt, and…
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BECOMING PHOENIX
To write again is a struggle A struggle to give voice to months Entombed in passivity Lacerated by loneliness Bored…
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Reflections on Lost Time
Psychic pain consumes my brain Haunting caustic always the same Rhythms change but grey remains The color cloaking blood and…
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LINES and BARS
accepting rejection dissecting connection i seek absolution but crave affection alone in a jail cell trapped in a living hell…
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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…
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VERSES for UNGODLY HOURS
Night fills my veins Brain flies rewired Bordering insane Neurons flash untired Praying for creation Hastening evolution Beseeching elation Dreaming…
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STREET ART IS NOT A CRIME
We rule the night Armed with paint Taking walls-scrawling names Plant a flag-say your piece Make it rhyme-make it deep…
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A Short History of Racism
Dehumanizing African lives Rationalizing genocide Embodied in-law-enshrined in rites Consuming a nation riddled in lies It lives in every cop…
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DMV INSURGENCY
gentrified-cannabalized dc cries as fenty writhes soaked in shit and wet with lies oligarchy lives to die neoliberal parasites developers…
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TO PATRICK
We were adolescent friends Armed with pubescent bravado Always joking—always smiling The girls always liked you So I thought you…
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MANIC NIGHTS
Some things are dangerous to remember Nights flying through streets Lights flashing—sending signals Time slowing—now racing Every corner a new…
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HONESTLY
What I want Is to hold you To feel your lips Against mine What I feel Is tortured longing Swelling…
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JUSTICE JUXTAPOSED
the facts: housing is a right gentrification is a virus like rats artists rule the night when inspiration finds us…
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EUPHORIC
emphatic euphoric erotic adore it love is melodic give in and go for it BYPO c2010 EVOLVE or Die Trying…
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BIPOLAR
Sometimes when I tell people they don’t get it The response is sometimes like I’ve just announced my favorite color…
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MEXICO CITY
A sea of humanity Taquerias and street food Dance with la zona rosa Cheap drinks, clubs, and dates Nights in…
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FIRE
Treading on the edge Going up for months Without really going down Wide awake at 5 am Contemplating bold moves…
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DO IT RIGHT–Letter to a Pop Star in Arizona: the bilingual bassline remix
huh-huh-HEY-HEY gaga do it right its a war zone fight don’t side with hate da-dit DO IT RIGHT INCITE tonight…
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CRUDE FABLE
the fox is guarding the hen house and bp is fixing the oil spill a toxic game of cat and…