Chat-GPT is writing raps?
I’m getting old
but not quite 50
When my rage explodes
Transform like Bill Bixby
Hulkin’ out
So big and green
I rip my jeans
But I doubt
Most even get the reference
From old tv shows
I suppose I was the same
When the former generation
Would claim disdain
And a lack of respect
From all of 'these little whipper snappers'
Living with no regret
Responsibilities, fears, or plans for the future
Writing checks
And spending cash that their asses haven’t earned yet
No mortgages, wars, discrimination, and pain
They no longer fight the power, rather seek to claim
Mere fortune and fame
Making videos, asking strangers to subscribe and like
Sharing their opinions and comments every day and night
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Gender Apartheid
The Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan since 2021
Is an abomination and must be undone
When America ended its war, millions of women lost their freedom
The UN continues to demand equality, but Afghanistan won’t even heed them!
Today it is illegal for an Afghan woman’s voice to heard in public by a man
Under the rule of law, established by the Taliban
As Mullahs mandate this kind of oppression, we’re so apathetic and naive
To think that this ideology won’t spread worldwide, and in time fester and breed
Into the consciousness of the world, like slavery, technology and fast food
Ignorance, convenience, and control can be so addictive, swift and crude
As a Black American, I speak English and believe in Christianity
Our African ancestors probably consider our reality an insanity!
500 years ago, they didn’t fo... |
Selling books in the rain, in Harlem
One of a hundred vendors in Harlem, waking in rain
I didn’t sell anything today, but I didn’t complain
A writer lives in a spectrum of optimistic extremes
Believing that almost anything is possible, writing our hopes and selling our dreams!
A few yard from me, an author of a financial literacy book did not despair
When the wind blew and dumped buckets of rain water on her hair
The children’s book writer didn’t fret
When her tent fell over and her inventory got all wet!
We left the Harlem Book Fair this summer without making a single sell!
As I pulled my cart of books past the Apollo theater, large rain drops fell
In between two famous musicians, my wheels somehow locked up!
By Michael Jackson and Ella Fitzgerald, I chucked at my luck
Perhaps the greats were just sending me a message, not to giv... |
America is a still at war today!
Casualties of war are like a wildfire
Trees aflame, spreading fast, smoke climbing higher
The war/fire ends when interest finally wanes
Or there are no longer enough people/trees to sustain the deadly flames
Over 15k deaths in Sudan, 40k in Gaza, an 500k in Russia and Ukraine
The Americans that sent the bombs, tanks, and guns there, just abstain and complain
As we debate and protest, calling each other amoral and liars
Ironic because we're still hold the matches that started all of these fires!
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Orville Redenbacher
Getting older is like having a used car or a bike
That works, but is almost always not quite right
There's a dent, scratch, or part that needs constant repair
Drive a day without pouring water in the radiator, if you dare!
I’ve had a crook in my neck for over three years
I’m like one of those bikes that our parents used to buy at Sears!
The chain may pop off, whenever you change the gears
Pop a wheelie, hit the brakes too fast, or take a sharp turn
Which I did so often, because I would never learn!
I fell off a hundred times, and got over a dozen flats
I’d cut the intertube and burn rubber with a match
It was simple then, fixing my problems with just a patch
But now whenever my aging body requires a mend
It's not quite as easy to fix, as my old banana seat Schwinn!
I stretch, apply ice and heat, but whenever my joints bend
I hear... |
Why I don’t drink at corporate parties
The rage that James Baldwin best explained
Most qualified but passed up for promotion again, but never ashamed
Accomplished, but not quite as well off as my white peers
Generation wealth is a b!+€#, your goals to obtain it, their biggest fears
Life to them is just a game, and each get a cheat code
While you play with just one life left, on the most difficult mode!
They ask why you never get drunk at corporate parties, like they all do
But you know when that liquor hit, you’ll tell them all to go to hell, and then the police will probably kill you!
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Gravitron
Have you ever been on that on carnival ride?
As the Gravitron spins, up and down 45 panels slide
Three times the force gravity to be exact
Pined to the wall, stuck flat on your back!
Earth spins at 1,000 mph, but this ride is only 24 revolutions per minute!
But it feels so much faster, whenever you’re trapped up in it!
At first it seems fun, until it feels like a cage
Like finding yourself stuck in the same routine for over four thousand days!
Regretting your choices, as you spin and slide
It’s only supposed to be an 80 second fairgrounds ride!
When you manage to look and listen, beyond the lights and the sounds
The ‘Carny’ who started your ride is now... |
kumtia siku - seize the day in Swahili
Flippin words like a acrobat
Rhymes of these times in our habitat
Humanity, history, the struggle, love and pain
Triumph, despair, gravity, water down the drain
They try to complicate life, so let’s make it plain!
Hold those you like and love tight
Try your best to do right
Life is a dream, so fast it flies by
Mistakes, fame, and money is worthless when you die.
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Summer Boredom
A country mouse in the city
Grief, summer heat, boredom, pity
As hot as the saying goes
I wonder if heaven’s cold?
Nothing new on TV, even this episode!
Another re-run
Summer’s just begun
Too hot to ride bikes or even play ball!
Weeks into June, already looking forward to fall!
Mom and Dad both at work, they told me to never call…
Unless the house is aflame or if I’m getting sick
So bored, I hit this tree a thousand times with a stick!
I had a dollar, but I already spent it!
On a quarter water, Little Debbie, Now N’ Laters, and a Chico stick!
I don’t even like Chicos, but its great for a trade
A pinch of Big League Chew or a dip of some Lik-M-Aid!
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The tale of ‘Wagging the dog’
In an alternate universe
Dogs keep people as pets
Cats are merely pests...
We bark, they talk, it’s really a mess!
Some have compassion, and keep us inside
Others are cruel, and chain us up outside
Some take us for granted, as soon as we get old
Neuter and spay us, breaking our mold
Never take us for walks, or buy us treats
But we still greet them at the door, and pant at their feet…
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