February 2011
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January 2011
5 posts
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Sweet intrusion!
Whom do you think you are? Bulbous uninvited guest, wandering in from the night; From what battlefield do you come? Weary warrior, O wanderer, drenched in crimson velvet, Draped in rosy robes, Dripping with red liquid, sloshing within; With a battle cry of “Oh, Yeah!” you come without knock, You entreat without invitation. Again, I ask—whom do you think you are??
I will tell...
Follow me upon yonder Twitters, lest thy be... →
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“Indeed, you are mindful of what this is—
Ebony and amber, ebony and...”
– The Ever Eloquent King, Wiz Khalifa, “Black and Yellow”
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O Mystery Revealed!
Pajama jeans, O Blanket of softness; mockingbird garment of sapphire hue; Who knows your secret? Who may divine that azure truth as you saunter past, Swaying, smirking, switching amid yonder juke joint; You are a billboard that screams its advertisement: “I am woman! Mark my curves cupped ever so tightly, gifts ever so squeezed!” And there, o textiled magician, is thy secret! Though...
“Big up, big up; it’s a stick up, stick up,
And I shall waylay a brother...”
– The Illustrious Biggie Smalls
August 2010
1 post
A Poem for Aretha Franklin on the Eve of Her Fall...
What causes waves to crash upon the shore? When does the noble apple know that the time has come To take his life-plunge from branch to the arms of Earth? None but God in her regal heaven knows; And maybe, too, is it only God who knows what stars aligned And sent you, soulful queen, in a melodic tumble from upright to porcelain ground. Perhaps your voice, heavy with golden tone and feeling, Grew...
July 2010
2 posts
“Once the tender libation of Remy has been consumed,
One may not forecast...”
– The noble, russet king Jay-Z (anointed also as Hov), “I Just Wanna Love You”
Test me, life! For I am but prepared--
Burden me with your worst, Satan! Raise yon thermostat, be you bold enough; Throw at me the heat of a thousand suns, And stand strong, shall I! My pores shall not weep, nor shall mine eyes Fearing the embarrasment of the moist underpits of mine arms, For I come equipped with the armor of my grandmother And her grandmother before she: O Tussy, creamy shield of life, Old school like the spirituals...
June 2010
5 posts
2 tags
In Ode to Star Jones.
But soft! What light through yonder mound of chocolate marshmallow broke; It was Diabeetus, and Star Jones the insulin cutting through. No longer must you fear The Sugar, O pointy sister, For you have risen above like so many helium balloons; You have risen, like the noble falcon soaring through snow kissed mounts; Like the humble crackhead from his nightly nest, you have risen And risen and...
“Deny it, I shall not; for I am a rider of the uncrooked variety,
And thou...”
– the late, great, annointed warrior TuPac Shakur, “Ambitionz Az a Ridah”
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O Valiant Brothers Johnson,
Thou annointest my limbs with creamy libations fair; From the oppression of that ivory blanket, The white devil that ever pursues my russet soul— Ashiness, the alabaster cancer that sags my epidermis heavy with sadness— You protect me. No longer must I smear Vaseline upon my joints, Leaving Jheri Curl-esque stains upon my dungarees. Thanks to you, O Johnson Brothers two, I spin and...
Welcome, O Soldiers of Internets Yon!
It is with the humblest of humility that I embrace thee, O Internet surfing warriors, Be you at thine home ignoring the cries of your babes Or at work at the local comunity college feigning productivity; Be you a paying patron of these Internets, Or be you stealing it from the Booty Hut Hotel down the street, Welcome! Welcome to these ruminations mine: Jaunt, young scholars, through the halls of...