We all think we can do things which we can’t.
‘There’s nothing to it’ – how we’ll rue those words!
Those other jobs look simple – which they aren’t.
Thus, landing helicopters, roping herds,
injecting diabetics, seem a snip:
but teaching is the softest. “What jackass
could fail at chalk and talk?” Please! Get a grip!
Just try it, bro. Go stand before a class.
We’re at the hotel’s cheese and scrambled eggs.
I’m soon to show Mercedes London’s sights.
What drains my ego to its bitter dregs
(interpreting is easy, right?) is when
I ask the staff ‘Is Big Ben open nights?’
in English, and assure her, ‘que bien!’
What no sugar means
Is that it’s sugar free
For a diabetic
It’s very important
But when something
That’s supposed to be
Sugar free has sweetener
Inside, like fructose or
Sweet and low, it’s
A misrepresentation of
A sugar free product, plus
It’s bad for diabetics
Epitaph for the Test Dogs
What you did for us, not many know,
because you did it so long ago.
Victoria’s reign to flapper days,
you lived in labs while other dogs played.
Pancreas removed from each of you,
you were, then, rendered diabetic too.
Were insulin shots something to trust?
Since they worked for you, they were tried on us.
They worked like magic when they were tried.
Type I diabetics no longer died.
To you, furry friends, this tribute we give.
You gave up normal lives so we could live.
Contest: How you live or have been healed from a difficult and challenging health condition?
The illness in life
Some can be cured
Often are a mystery
They have no cures
Many people are curious
So many dollars spent
On cures for cancer
Yet there is no cure
Curious why diabetics
That is a rare case
A cure is not found
Mulipultiple sclrosis
Another illness
Without a cure
Polio also no cure
Where are the experts?
To find a cure?
You would think with
medical research
A cure for one illness
would be found
At the kitchen table
Eating all the gravy
This gets complicated and messy
Cornbread and turkey
Ham and chicken
Grand man chosen
Is beholden smorgasbord
Stop eating
Look at these dishes
Everyone's eating who's going to clean all these
Dirty dishes
Papa smoking a pipe
Reading a newspaper
Trying to understand all the hype
yeah all the hype
While still at the kitchen table
People still greasing their faces
Overeating diabetics
Pork and Italian sausages
and fat back and slime
And all that
No one's taking time
To just get one more plate
At the kitchen table
Eating all the biscuits gravy
Cornbread ham and turkey
Grand man chosen
is beholden
Smokers board
Stop eating look at those dishes
Everyone's eating who's going to clean
All these Dirty Dishes
4/27/15
Written words by Ja'Maz Semaj Drawer Rseel ©2015, 2020
From anthology "UNCKLE JA'MAZ"
At the kitchen table
Eating all the gravy
Biscuits, cornbread
Turkey legs and ham
Grand man chosen
Is beholden smorgasbord
Stop eating
Look at these dishes
Everyone's eating whose gonna clean up all those dirty dishes
Papa smoking a pipe
Reading the newspaper
Trying to understand all the hype all the hype oh yeah
People still greasing their faces
Overeating diabetics
Sausages and fat back pork and slime and more so much more on the place
At the kitchen table
Eating all the gravy
Biscuits and cornbread
Stomach and head exploding
Grand man chosen
Is beholden smorgasbord
Stop eating all yah
Look at these dishes
Everyone's full got up and ran from the table
Now you no ya able, to come help clean up
Them dirty dishes
Written words & arranged music by JaMaz Rseel Drawde Semaj 2015, 2019©
From anthology “Unckle Ja’maz a deadication to Jamela Jenkins”
Web bakers making cookies,
Small,so soft hot less cookies
All diabetics buy and try web cookies!
Wish satisfaction lasted longer
than the performance it took
to achievie it. Longer than
one's recollection of years
spent reminiscing over it
Could I have an influx
of orgasmic injections
so a sweeter satisfaction
premeates within me
balancing my urges
the same way insulin
gives life to diabetics.
Tapping an artery,
heroin and snow flurries,
in a moment she'll own me
like Snow did Dopey.
I need a chance to overdose with it.
Bring me back to life,
expose my undying
determination to make a meal
of what I'm dying to feel.
You give me an AMC
kinda feel
Syndicate me,
give me my own channel,
prescribe a rating
and see if I can handle.
Animal channel or
Discover. PG unseen.
Satisfy by any means,
induce riots,
produce documentaries
Call it "He don't know how to act"
and yell pineapple,
stroke after...
Well, you receive
the meaning.
Whatever you do
release soon,
I wanna see your
blockbuster in
slow motion replay
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