toxic emotions
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TRYING NOT TO FALL
if you see me leave earlyor hesitate to make eye contactif i seem reticent to express too much affectionthat’s just…
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RADIANT ROOTS
i imagine myself bathed in lightor held in a luxurious and potent embrace I imagine myself protected by a force…
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AN INTRUSION OF GREY
alone with my emotions, i am wracked by malaise i contend with my demons clothed in varied shades of grey…
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HEXAGONS OF BABYLON
hexagons and lexicons digging deep and dropping bombs striving for freedom singing songs crafting a future that is just beyond…
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GHOSTS: a riff on the emotional subterranean
echoes of emotion transgress my heart and mind i feel currents of suppressed attraction in confluence deep inside the erratic…
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A SURVIVOR’S MANIFESTO
its been more than three years since i jumped off key bridge almost ending a life that at the time…
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KARMIC INSURGENCY
whose streets—our streets so said the cops while suppressing speech black lives on trial—neo-nazis on the rise such a toxic…
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RITES OF FIRE: pyrotechnic meditation
we are slaves to technology—and to the class in control we transcribe a new pedagogy—reclaiming the creative human soul the…
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RADICAL EXORCISM
praying for love and praying for peace praising the sun and craving relief we have miscreants in power—sowing seeds of…
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KING OF RAGE
ANGEL OR DEMON DEVIL OR SAINT YOU TAKE WHAT YOU WANT RAGE RULES YOUR BRAIN LIKE A MONSTER YOU KILL…
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IMMORTALIZED: a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron
love and rage took the stage speaking truth eschewing fame inscribing pain abusing veins rebel poet living wraith harlem streets…
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A MONSTA RIFF
Monster boy ate my heart Ate my love tore it apart Left me dancing in the dark Bathed in tears…
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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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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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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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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…