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CHANGE
HIGH TIDES
CHANGE
HIGH TIDES
CHANGE
HIGH TIDES
CHANGE the altered
states of horror
Sequel to Goree island dungeons
of deception imprison my perception
Grand dragin’
me through
forty years of
dark and stormy nights
saturate my
atmosphere
afraid to
CHANGE _the
channel
when there’s
nothing on but re-runs of dangerous minds
offering good
reception
To walk away
from privilege is foreign in my direction
Here they come
slumming, half-baked, grateful to be dead
“Yippee!”
hippie
intentions of racial aggression charged me with bigotry
Needing force
to vent vintage points of interest
I find this
interesting.
_Sounds like
Caribbean roots
when putting
your ear to the ground
captivating,
the mood
tree break
bark
anguish!
Sun shining
through reflecting the doom
Sickness reigns
“Rain-forest
fever,” they call it
Running highway
through unexplored territory to classify essence of being.
_God is CHANGE
Growth is
CHANGE
As your eyes
move from word to word there is CHANGE
As your ears
receive each syllable there is CHANGE
Revolution that
too is
CHANGE _your
perception
jaded
green
contacts lends suspicion
too concave to
see the farther effects
Trivial?
True
Some truths
need to CHANGE
_Slacks wearing
slackers want to
feel the passion of
lives hard fought
boasting big
deeds from the other side of the tracks
without paying
dues
Moods ring true
in bleeding heart fashion
Waiting,
waiting, waiting, turning blue
Stussy stained,
the body politic
as empathy
broke my rhythm
tripping, on the
good foot
Black and Proud
my aura struck a pose pleading
Please, please,
please
-change,
change, CHANGE
I am
Every step I
take
every breath I
breathe brings me closer to death
I eat
I live
I grow
I
CHANGE _the
weather
in this world,
madness reigns
Tempted by the
tempest to join self-hate’s hurricane
Mind BLOWN in a
lightning quick flash of consciousness
conducting
fourth eye inward and third upward
Earth, sky and
I seeing pass clouded minds lined with silver
Screening my
thoughts and stealing my humanity
Trying to make
me into an ex-man
Cyclops beaming
on my brain like
electrons on
glass with no remote hope of control
get up and
CHANGE
_Travel the
lost highways of America
where Africans
are still being lynched.
Swinging in the
breeze from tree to shinning tree
caught unaware
stupidity
framed supreme nausea.
Shifting my
position, a prisoner of circumstance
my options
proved limited
Aspirations
disillusioned, I'm forced to bear witness
Witnessing
animal behavior in danger
Oh dear! in the
headlights
Ass-ed out, I
side stepped too slow
Eerrrk! BOOM
Caught in this
liberal conversation
Change: to make
or become different
Revolution: a
sudden or complete change
The only thing
that remains consistent, unaltered and steady is
Change _your
values, allowing ugly heads to rear…
Migraines
shift.
Sifting at
close range.
Bleeding
foreground color colored plastic,
some assembly
required.
Little people
play ‘follow the leader’
Snake eyes
close when C-low losses
Second2Last is
written without Brown
Epitaphs poured
on concrete
bringing this
message to the masses
Change
is how we know we’re alive!
_Even in
stagnation there is CHANGE
Not enough to
make things better
Sometimes
enough to make things worse
and baby, if
it’s broke fix it!
This boat needs
rockin’ ‘cause the ripples in the water mean
CHANGE _as we
criss-cross the country with white chalk
Inner-city
communities die a little at a time refusing to
CHANGE the
subject;
expelled from
society
Living just
enough for the city
Where pookies
had a fan club on every other corner since the 70’s
Rock-a-bye
Rock-a-bye,
motherfuckers fell for the popular catch phrase.
A new jack in a
big city bought the confusion with a ten spot
Changing
focus-ness, loosing consciousness
Don't sleep,
too sound pay attention…
PAY
ATTENTION
Unconscious
conversations carry consequences
confusing
family blood lines through time with mass resuscitation
CLEAR?
Don't
sleep
_Popular
culture prepared to perpetuate transition
from one tail
to the other
Blind folded my
attention like yours lost
Looking for the
cause of mal intent so I
pin it on the
jackass inaugurated every 4 years
I caught him in
the 3rd eye
2nd
time hearing it
believe it the
1st time
Never CHANGE
_Two steps back
and one step forward,
not enough to
equate with revolution
yet and still
it is
Change _is so
simple,
It’s just so
simple,
A Raison In The
Sun made Langston Hughes a genius but
what is love?
and what's love
got to do, got to do with this!
_Beliefs,
culture
constitute,
systems.
Right and
wrongs identify themselves like
stares
across
crowded
rooms.
Ancestral
guidance under-estimated
Locked away in
a dresser draw,
it was framed
that instant
caffeinate it
so you can stay awake
to focus on the
problem at hand
keeping change
constant ‘cause
HIGH TIDES
CHANGE _when players want to be just like Ike
_Ike ain’t
got no sense
and sometimes
cents is change.
_Beyond thunder
domes,
sweet talk
ain’t nothing but a ghetto
lullaby
so don't we
make a raggedy pair…
Jake
and Chill
went
up to the hill
to
buy a bag of smack.
Chill
turned round
caught
a round in the round
and
Jake smoked Chill in the back.
Birds don't
sing the blues when brothers die,
dreams just
fade away like grim fairy tales exhaled
AND CHANGE YOUR STATION
exhaled AND
CHANGE YOUR STATION
exhaled AND
channel or
canal like
Panama to break mental locks,
then Telemundo,
broadcasting
the Univision
beyond the
scope of simple satellites
who can’t see
the change in the stars
Blackholes
going supernova,
eclipsing dark
times and raising the LOW TIDES CHANGE
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