2020 Freestyle series #41 - untitled iv | © poet.dreamer.fool
Respect Is a thing you gotta give to get Cut this deck Play this hand Like magic gathering
Black lives been mattering Dreams big like Saturn's ring Money talks art sings You can’t tell this cat a thing
Altering perspectives Blistering invectives Acquiring funds Is the prime directive, detective
Heaven’s got a gate But hell ain’t too selective our development And our fathers are arrested
Bested By the looking glass self No help Run from the cops Like we ran from the belt You ignore the emotions But they’re still felt
Ptsd, baggies of weed A brother in need: The embodiment of the projects No permanence of objects
No fear If you ain’t from here don’t come here No tears But there’s tear gas The cop who dumped it Looked like a meerkat
Predators and prey A lifetime in a day The situation is Black, white And 50 shades of grey
Read the cop's lips While you watchin what you say They will still shoot you in the back though Flood the streets with crack though End your life Over a momentary lapse so
Get it how you live
We can’t fit in But we fit the description Pandemic evictions Felony restrictions A sober surreal Stranger than fiction
Egyptian inscriptions Whitewashed black glory drilled down to syrup labels commoditized oral fables packaged up For the kid of the guy who wants to shoot me
Coaches recruit me Like it's the only way out Bounce a ball, pick some cotton Run your feet Not your mouth Be grateful That as long as you’re a good one You’ll be tolerated
