BYPO PHOENIX
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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…
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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…
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AGENTS OF KARMA
In the beginning was the word And the word was death Or maybe life or death to all life And…
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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…
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NUCOMINTERN
born from rubble carved in steel revolution is for real ground to powder grown in dirt copulation shouldn’t hurt red…
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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…
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BOMBS IN BENGHAZI
a hundred cruise missiles launched today 1 million each- made in the USA the ghosts of those dead in the…
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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…
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Contending with Grey
i feel grey creeping in again melancholy next of kin solitude breeding sin isolation sinking in i long for something…
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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…
