January 2012
123 posts
I want to write you a poem.
But you make me want to sing.
“It’s one thing to be ignorant, but it’s another thing to spread that shit.”
—Safi Niara - 2011 Team Black Member (PYPM)
I love you, my dear.
Doll face, I love you more. From the softest spot in my heart. I swear I do.
Got a phone call saying Kai is also on Bossip's website.
That girl. I tell ya. I won’t even bother replying to the massive amount of shade PYPM was getting for my previous post. Situation’s like this speak for me.
Mentoring a socially conscious youth poet means..
Dealing with their thoroughly formed and passionate opinion(s) on topics most people their age haven’t even begin to consider/realize exist.
“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”
—Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”
“blue/black/magical/woman. walking.
womb ripe. walking. loud with mornings. walking.
making pilgrimage to herself. walking.” —Sonia Sancez (Present)
womb ripe. walking. loud with mornings. walking.
making pilgrimage to herself. walking.” —Sonia Sancez (Present)
“Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.”
—Neale Donald Walsch
21 Reasons Why The English Language Sucks →
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1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when does are present.
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
The kind of thing only folks concerned with writing can really appreciate.
Wisdom is patient.
I sought advice and my godmother told me to call her back when I got tired, “‘Cus nothing retains information better than a weary soul.”
In hindsight she was right, I wouldn’t have listened at the time. I’m all ears now.
