Long Spliff Poems

Dunce! You can’t spell cat
Dunce! You can’t spell rat
Dunce! You can’t spell dog
The mad man cries out in the street
Shaming and exposing big men and women.
And shouting expletives upon expletives.

X cloth, Z cloth blue cloth,...

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I There’s only a few things I take seriously 
One of them is writing furiously 
Cleverly spinning verses 
Inked in cursive 
Certainly no stranger to adversity
Head nodding
Word dropping 
non stopping
Versing with an urgency
Invasive with my...

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get back to the basics busting fat laces running the bases
it used to be cool to obey the golden rule yet that went out the door in 64
open the door for your neighbor then you...

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Ive developed a bit of a fetish, dear,
The smelling of objects of a queer kind.
"Queer", the collective perspective of a selected few
Let me address the subject once more
Select more carefully the words I spew
Breakdown
Analyze 
peripheralize
Re...

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To be clear...  
I’m not asking you to love this.  
I’m asking for you to meet me  
where the words land hard—  
where syllables ignite  
like the last coin ...

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Afraid of

What am I afraid of...Really.
 is what scares me in thought, silly?
 What I'm afraid of ...
 is my Life never having meaning;
 to never reach my full potential is what my soul be...

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I've danced beside The Devil, pale moonlight we're 
toe to toe, the embers of my life emit a warm and 
somber glow,

which lights the darkest corners of a place inside my 
mind, a twitch defines...

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I.
In the full light of a warriors plight,
Sometimes it becomes a case of  being slighted and being Aright,
Its a case of solemn thinkings to soothe this anguish and its deeprooted pain,
Do see things from...

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He is the African War General,
After his massive Digestion of Seven "JUMBO" Spliff Joints and more,
The sage wont forget to mention his Gulp-in of four pints of dark 'Wicked' Rum before 
His Very taste of...

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Where Raleigh wrote on regal window pane
I will embark to swim
She warns me that the kelp will disdain
The journey hard and grim
But all because you call again, and call
Beyond the brim where ships enthralled
Have floundered,...

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Cantankerous cancers found my blood letting from the slit, 
Is it avarice of me to desire the love begetting of Lazarus?
Enjoying life cadaverous like forgetting the want to live, 
Is it glamorous for me to...

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I went to heaven before my time,
In dentist’s chair through sky did climb,
And in his goodness, verve and youth
The dentist took dull pain from tooth

And when the empty clot in gum,
Said write your name and...

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Christianity: “hitting yourself over the head with a hammer so that when you stop it feels so good.”

Judaism: “hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because you are a chosen one.”

Muslim: “It feels good...

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Somehow I feel connected to each lock
They remind me of a time before me when black was not just hip hop
They remind me of a movement towards freedom
When we were gaining the momentumm to no...

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His hair is alive,  
serpents writhing, a man Medusa of the tropics, 
as if he wore the demons 
of colonialism and injustice on his head, 
unforgetting,
a dung-brown-and-black hologram of 
the ganja-fueled reveries inside, 
the...

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Something moaning in them hills tonight
something calm with quiet tears
something caught winging a web of plight
something trapped in tired years
something longing for an irreversible flight
something moaning in them hills tonight

I know them mountain full of...

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It came back around and said, "I know you like to party."
He gave me a red cup, a little Coke, and Bacardi.
The Devil working hard, attaching himself to my body
He's scratching and clawing.
The work of...

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I close my eyes when I think I, feel you I,
think I smell you, I think I see you.
The Goddess Of poetry, so beautifully insane I remember,
the poems, in HIGH CASED letters of ANGELS AND...

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Happiness is easy 
when you're not looking backward
or forward through the chaos.

Summer afternoon, juice 
sweet on my lips, 
hands stained blueberry, 
dirty hands, 
smell of weed rolled up in a spliff-
puff puff, sniff sniff, breathe.

Rockin’...

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here we careen through the scheme
riding the vortex of the american dream
seen behind the blind scenes in hiding
keep fighting the design on the frontlines.

the career of a degenerative peer
is not measured by how they appear
or...

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His name is Griffin. Folks though call him “Griff”
He hails from universities of stone
Debate with him is as a smoken spliff
It leaves one’s mental faculties undone

For high o’er land and sea and distant isles
The eye...

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The spliff got the room spinning, 
Rewriting lines, 
Reusing rhymes, 
Connections are my artistic vision. 
Weed got my head splitting, 
Sicker than a dead mind, 
Thinking about how ima die, 
Fitting. 
Hitting joints then making...

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Say that everything will be just fine,
When I’m lying in bed with a bottle of wine.
And you’re workin’ on number nine,
Figuring out why I’m still on your mind.

Call me and tell me you’re alone,
So I...

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A Southern Band, so grandeur
Always professional as they tuned and toured
The Skynyrds, as i grew up with them
Southern gals and Southern men.

Rossington, Medlocke and the famous Van Zants
Straight Southern Rock without a slant
Boogie riffs, and...

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Reggae artist Peter Tosh said it best with his hit song "Legalize It". The legendary 
 Bob Marley  also glorified it in his music.   Of course they were referring to marijuana.
 In...

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