Rise and Shine!
Up early with the dog walkers and birds
Thinking about my goals, writing down ideas and words
As the sun rises another day begins
Yesterday doesn’t matter, losses and wins
News, attitudes, and weather we can’t control
The weight of the world demands a toll
The future is a mystery, what challenges and opportunities lie ahead?
You won’t find out, until you get out of bed!
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To become a worldwide known unknown
I’d like to be anonymous and wealthy
Like Bansky and Satoshi
Stealthy but moxie
Creating art and wealth with proxy
Rather than being mediocre or obscure
With modest means and influence, mostly unsure
If my ideas were ever worth the time
And effort to chip away at and mine
So thousands, then millions, and billions spent time and money on my whims
Reference often, go into debt, risk their lives and limbs
Just to obtain my creation
Something so strange and special, it causes instant elation
Something that haunts you like Frankenstein
A terror so charismatic it stole the scientist’s last name and design!
To frighten and delight for generations in time
Most don’t know the woman who wrote the book or the character who brought the monster to life
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Megatron and Me
We was playing with our transformers
1984, outside just having some fun
His was a semi, mines was a gun
Police lights flashed, so we both started to run!
Cops thought I was packing some real heat!
We split up in alley, playtime became a track meet!
Transformed my gat back into Megatron real quick
My friend and Optimus Prime were able to successfully dip!
But me and Megatron failed to give the pigs the slip
Still hot on my trail, I stashed Megatron in the trash with a flip
Collar snatched, my heart sank when the ground left my feet
The pigs squealed, ‘Hey little punk, where’s your illegal piece?'
I spit on the ground and kept them both guessing
Watching those TV shows, I learned my lesson
Didn’t say nothing, per my Miranda rights
Just then, a buzz above illuminated the street lights
The second cop copped his watch, and they let me l... |
Pull apart the art from the folks
The difference between pathetic and apathetic it’s hard to conceive
The media just misleads
Product consumption and various misdeeds
While all the vitriol gets soaked up by our seeds
Your selection for the election
Lost, why do the rich and famous need more protection?
Cost, the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich
Ask questions, when the future forgets the past, life’s a !
And then you die, so why do we even try to explain?
When the authorities show us nothing but disdain?
Pain, is just frustration leaving your body, but can you sustain?
Hundreds of brilliant men and women tried to complain
Just to be be called crazy, converted, or even assassinated
Then later celebrated
Those black heroes who died young, been tried, or overdosed
Went from young gifted and black to comatose
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Cake for breakfast
Cake for breakfast
Celebrations leave me breathless
Tenacity and the capacity to accomplish goals
The village that raised me had various roles
Church, school, home, even the corner store!
It only took a little time and effort, but they gave me so much more
At the celebration of my graduation, I greeted and thanked nearly everyone
The next morning, I woke up early from my night of fun
And enjoyed a piece of my graduation cake - yum!
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Politics and Discourse are dead
Politics and Discourse are officially dead
Folks right, left, and center all see red
Everyone lies because we made our bed
By consuming social and traditional media that only agrees with our opinions
As our algorithms and AI transforms us into minions
Today your opinions only matter if you have money or fame
That’s not the way American democracy should work, what a shame!
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Dreams are like Diamonds
Make them believe!
Ideas to reality, work from success
Critics first doubted, but now they’re impressed!
You had to make them believe
Like some fairy tale lead
Years of sweat and winkles on rolled up sleeves
Hands get filthy building impossible dreams!
Grime plus work equals births the greatest of things
Dirt under your nails
Cloudy water in pails
You got it out ‘da mud…Like a worm or a bug!
Persistence paid off, in due time
Doubters bare witness, once your treasure began to shine!
Thoughts sprouted and grew like a tree
High in the clouds, but below most can’t see
The roots that anchor and nourish reality
Them haters stay jelly than a mug!
A prescription for this affliction, use this song like a drug! And…
<Chorus> Make them believe… What you can see
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2 types of people on a sinking boat…
There are only two types of people on a sinking boat
Those who save the boat and others who save themselves
Nobody knows who they will be, or what compels
One to risk life and limb, or take their chances with sharks and whales
If everyone decided to labor for the greater good
The chances of success would improve the likelihood
That all may survive, patching holes or finding a bucket
But who am I kidding, most folks will probably just say #%?! it!
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Why do we want to be what we’re not?
I want to be what I’m not
Not what I’ve already done and been
I want to do what I can’t, meaning I want to win!
All of the wishes unrealized, and goals unmet
The unsuccessful challenges lost, to make up for years of desire and regret
I want to be what I’m not
But I don’t even know how!
If I found a way to do it, it would it make me smile?
Why can’t I be content with me?
When I look in the mirror, I don’t 'love' what I see
Because all the success that I’ve achieved so far
Isn’t enough to make me believe, in my life’s movie, that I am the star!
If my life is someone else’s wildest dream
Then why do I have a desire for a new scheme?
If I became everything that I’m currently not
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Ode to the Rat Catcher!
At the Robin Hood Renaissance Fair, a rat catcher greeted us by the entrance
She cradled one like a baby rat, fully entranced
She had a few toy rats attached to her dress with a string
Rocking her baby and engaging with her pack, she began to sing
This actress never once broke character, sitting on the cold ground
Half way through the event, she walked by (with her rats in tow) making a squeaking sound
She explained (in English) that she was bilingual, and fully fluent in ‘rat’
I thought to myself, ‘damn, this young lady can really act!’
The third time we saw her, my daughter and her friends decided to interact
She wasn’t selling toys or anything, she was just really dedicated to her art
Kudos to her and whomever hired her to play this historical accurate part!
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