I came from a fire-forge,
withholding pressure,
and heat.
It had prepared me.
A path designed, not chosen.
I sipped my soul, tasted only bitterness.
A glance in memory, and there is
no stillness.
A realm that scares me to death.
So I am waking up instead.
Known only by me,
my vow.
For all lights that I shut out,
For every tear — each dropout.
For all bruises, mistaken over years,
every scar that I had caused.
This is my pain and my burden.
Each day, a glance in the eyes,
Making sure to keep warm.
To love the world as it is.
And I'm looking at new York canvas
Man in the mirror
Big lou Adler
?
Copy print
He teaches desire as illusion in anger
Next day air
In the lonely night
Without a lonely write
It's the next day bourbon
Forced regard
Article un, lend, take ribbon
Set type
Articulate
Juliet Society friendly alien
Anime graphic coupe design
Interworx server adlib maintenance up?
Cellular diplexing and atenuation adlib it
On atom photon plan it
Photon up
And back
Illuminate addiction devicing
"Mobile" station "worker"
Involved in grid i.e. infrastructure bands
Desktop publishing rubbish
Good for nor bot Chomsky
demons in illusion anger desire
Sniffy states of adhd
Slow jam design access key level nerd dropout
L.A. Doll
New York Doll anime coupe sign ups
502 bad gateway newswire interupt day
Your bad
Illiterate rebels
Body body body
I was broken and lost,
Always been smart
but the vision got tossed.
Led astray
Now I’m back call it my new start, new day.
I craft code, make pages on the web,
Facial recognition, AI in my head.
Shopify stores, I’m the master, no lie,
Movie databases, bots that reply.
Cloud hosted apps, always online,
But recognition?
Still not mine.
I’m worth six figures, 100K a year,
But no one sees me I just disappear.
Is it my name?
Is that why doors close?
I know the frameworks Vue, Laravel, let’s go.
PHP, Python, I breathe in the scripts,
JavaScript magic in every commit.
Been applying for months… now it’s two years,
Still no open doors just doubt and fears.
My résumé’s sharp a killer, for real,
But it feels like I’m caged, denied the deal.
Non-traditional, college dropout,
Took the long road, still trying to climb out.
Illegal work showed up at my door
feels like I’m drifting away,
All this talent still nothing to say?
Is tech all a hoaxed
Who gets in?
The snake and the Rat
Saturday night Deep the light minds of the night flow
In the pines of trees
In tales of make believe
The funk is in the trunk
Given up on a pseudo memory
Takes a woman to make something beautiful
You cant do it Trump
Change my life before life changes it for me
Freedom's prison
Pirates wont go to church
Can't quit euphoria Can't quit dope
Blind to that fight Friends will make you see
Its that look
Gods celestial dreams
My motive vation won't let me sleep
When I see
A dropout valley
The tops on tree
Collapsing spirits
Strap on to me
Soaring over
See where it all begins
Those 3 letters
Mott gives to us
The cat on the hook
The hook on a rat The king of rat
Is Ra with a T
Silly face looking at me
The window peine
Sitting as
An a embodied likened of real
Looking through this classless tease
A window of sleeze
The cat never left
You cant touch me
I am the real deal
The meow cow
Programmed to be nice
Soon to take over the world
Meow
At school played silly truancy,
Back came with hateful pregnancy!
She’d just intended The Irksome.
For being by custom troublesome’….
But it was all too venturesome,
Beauty giving a son handsome
Plus one more prize – The Sad Gift:
From school Owner did her lift;
From the rest permanent shift,
Official reason: ‘Spend thrift’…
Never again be present,
As he would her sight resent.
Birth
Love
Safety
Support
Appreciation
Education
Persuasion
Attendance
Assignments
Assessments
Judgment
Discouragement
Confusion
Resentment
Absence
Deception
Failure
Dropout
Narcotics
Nowhere
Everywhere
Solace
Addiction
Fleeting
Disappointment
Disapproval
Runaway
Homeless
Estranged
Self-Reliance
Employment
Coercion
Tragedy
Loss
Escape
Calling
Determination
Travel
Seek
Explore
Epiphany
Aspiration
Freedom
Opportunity
Meaning
Purpose
Contrivance
Provoke
Encourage
Volition
"Do away with me, Lord!
For I have blown it again!
There's rust on my sword,
There's weakness within.
Who sinks in the Dead Sea?
And drowns with his cross?
I am broken and weary,
I am a total loss!
My life is sucked out,
There's no longer a flow,
I better dropout-
I failed You, I know."
"I see, but hardly agree!
This is how you must grow,
When I prune back the tree,
Its assuring to know!
I sent you a fiery trial,
Exposing your deepest ore,
Rest yourself for awhile,
And be strengthened even more.
In My kingdom you'll see
An east river that flows
From Jerusalem to the Dead Sea,
Transforming as it goes.
Where the Sea is stagnant,
The waters become fresh.
What was once repugnant,
Will satisfy afresh.
I will fill it with fish.
Its banks will provide fruit.
You will eat from My dish!
My wine will Restitute!
It will all be worth it!"
She ain’t the belle of the ball anymore
She’s not the picture
hanging on the wall
behind every dorm door
Miss Best Beauty
is no longer
the fave social media queen
That short-temper smile
don’t enamel contrite
gleam supreme
The autumn reign was semester short
as a mid-summer moonbeam
She’s not the hookah heartthrob
of every palpitating Y eye
testosterone dream
On the cute campus dance floor,
she curvy ain’t
the belle of the homecoming ball anymore
Hash tag splash
some ugly meme paint
This picture ain’t pretty
lipstick quaint
Give a kiss of death
to the hip flirtatious pledge darling
Professed Valkyrie
of TA many e-z Y conquest
Peer voted Super Hottie Best,
this belle had a novocaine, nosedive ring
Got a bosom pain degree,
false vows in the pleasure chest
Silver tongue hourglass-shape laid:
Tainted palette promises on a circular chime
Her pulse fade
is a wrinkled tick-tock portrait
To no acne avail,
pouty pigment
don’t age pageant well
Pretty poor fall from grace
was her
diva dropout farewell
11-01-21
Who can bear
a trouble of another?
but the ignorant
impose that by leading people to accept their whim and trouble
because that is only what they
can muster to the world
if it is a lie
why, why, why,
why is abortion, stealing and corruption
why, why, why,
why is clash, conflict and war
why, why, why,
why is family problem, cheating and unknown killing
why, why, why,
why is truancy, dropout and illiteracy
why, why, why,
why is selfishness, ego and atheism
if it is a lie
why, why, why,
why is cultism, bribery and tribalism
if it is a lie
why, why, why,
why there is a house
built for prostitution
why, why, why,
why there is a house
built for drinking and gambling
if it is a lie
why, why, why,
why there is a house
built for magic, witchcraft and unknown immolation
if it is a lie
why, why, why,
why there is slavery and colonisation
if it is a lie
why, why, why
why the same trouble marker
will suspect and hang his trouble
to an innocent
I knew something dark
yet it is what is to be
morked through.
Sniper hid vapors
tend to always bullet strike
with stealth air carrier accuracy
Silent noxious assault
pierced the nostrils
with oxy painful inhalation,
of the non-ventilated third degree
Deadly gaseous arrows
hit the overcrowded banquet room target;
and killed a-many healthy appetites,
with an alarming,
depressed tongue rate-of-mortality
Hurried footsteps exiting
is all the flatulent evidence I would need
to likewise proceed ... very quickly
Some intestinal terrorist
was dropping
lite ranch dressing bowel bombs,
most heavily
And the near-suicidal rush to escape
has gag damaged many throats,
most indiscriminately
I don’t cruelly mean to turbo fan
butt-of-joke rumors
with word-of-mouth rapidity
But ... it really was
a silent butt deadly graduation affair
And I say this,
with the utmost, stiff upper-lip respect:
Scented air peace
from an anonymous tip identity
This upwardly mobile yuppie —
Troll emoji catphish-ing bottom feeder
harbors no low-brow,
high school dropout insensitivity
The inside of me wants to explode
With the racism, and the disgrace that kanye has told
The sunken place is real
The effect it has on him
You already know the deal
The audacity to speak on "your" people
The people who represent US
When we live day by day
Yelling out...BLACK LIVES MATTER
Slaves by choice?
CHOICE??? NOT AN OPTION!!!
Don't make a bigger corruption
A big named figure
Go figure!
You are supposed to be representing all things
We need to expand our minds
Childish Gambino
Represented in a 3 min video
Our days are not about slavery
It is about dance and tweets
How bout schooling the streets
You should educate yourself
On the facts
Read a book or two
African Americans, their choice was to RUN
HELD DOWN because no one assisted
Where did "College Dropout" Kanye go
Please, step it up & stay "woke"
You getting schooled by childish gambino
NOW....
"THIS IS AMERICA"
The sergeant says,
you know the drill
And the new grunts get the spit down
Pressed pants and shiny boots
in the barracks
are military grade thumbs up
But, in the showers, eyes are cast down
Murmurs and rumors
are the foul body wash
that rinses off the raw recruit’s skin
Thick is the steam of intolerance,
thin is the patience of acceptance
Soldier girl
enlisted to serve her country
when she was a high school lad
Soldier boy
went to serve his nation
when he was a dropout lass
Everybody got five fingers on their hand,
everyone has five toes on their feet
The only difference is
the force of your will —
courage forged
in fierce firefights
of combat’s battle heat
Knee jerk reaction
to gender genuflexion
ain’t good for troop morale
Soldier girl with the hard body shell,
will die for his band of brothers
Shouldn’t they do the same for her as well?
The young woman peered into the room
She saw a large legless blind man
Uncovered and naked on the bed
The nurse nudged the woman forward
And warned her not to dawdle
The nurse declared that the man needed a sponge bath
Had the disease of diabetes
Had not taken care of himself
So we have to – take care of him, that is
After a final push, the nurse cautioned the woman
Dear, be careful around his thingy
I do not need this man getting excited
I am still waiting.
For something soulful yet real.
Kanye West inspires Kanye
Dear life I hate you so much
Eagerly my family waited for my birth
As soon as they knew that I was girl baby they crused me till they were pink.
Time moved and they made me a school dropout as they felt it was no use of educating a female.
Happily I'm departing this world as I don't want to be a burden to my parents.
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