State Raised Representative
I speak for…
voices with no multiple choices
members of the hopeless
corrupt cops bodycam, victim pistol pixels unfocused
elixir jail cell spells, state alchemist potions
adolescents made manimals
pan handled, mishandled, and manhandled
corroded in emotion
unpaid lay-away, fraudulent societal debt
young futures of post-ponement
milk crate squatting look outs
hollarin’, one time!
anticipating a dop boys bubble up moment
games played with no tokens
no kisses, no wishes, no Christmas, just toyless
hustler corner clairvoyants
new lost religions
generations of synthetic baptisms
liquor store holy anointed
dollar pocket prophet potential prospects in projects
Purple Heart Gnostic, ghetto dweller settlers
sick with mental crack whips doing circles in the six with sharp wit
diaper wise night crawlers enlightened by ignorance
empty souls railroaded, where Jacob’s ladders a full clip
metaphor reflections, matadors to the bullshit
crazed, in state raised mosh pits
academic section zoned prison school crack pipe lines
split homes evicted
I split for…statistics
being convicted since suckling on mom’s tit
suicidal youth, gambling courtroom roulette
gavels bang, wrist nailed hammers
judges chambers spin heartless
no exists, just who’s next
eating N.W.A cassettes for breakfast
ejecting euphemisms for offense
expressing stress, the oppressed pressing down and depressed
benching weighted calendars off their chest
cursed governmental birth, flirting with churchto think blessed
arthritic hurt joints bent on sweaty mornings
praying for a date while prayed on by judicial gods that ignore us
law library deadlines grinding against dead time
not living, but existing as three-fifths
13th amendment slaves
pumping daisy cemented graves
legislative unchained
11th in affect, hoping to erase retro-active mistakes
for those that need a break
Florida passed four, for 1.4 million to vote
labeled felons, you can never revoke hope
4,000 ol’ skools on parole
and the ones doing it natural
for those inside institutions fighting the constitution
I voice…the words that are never said
for those they left for dead, snorting crumbs of unbroken bread
jitterbugs, convicts, the innocent and ol’ heads
meager menu men malnourished but maintaining
on cold grits and stale bread
the children of the corn
sonogram cuffed fetuses steel-born
pill popping matrix, slipping out of the latex
labyrinth laboratory lab rats on the lam fromt he man
crossed up in cross hairs, crucified and damned
uniformed, un-unified, uniformed forever scorned
hog-tied good-byes
disappear, never to be seen like unicorns
Frisbee halo’s hollow hello hells
sideways jargon for the unpardoned
bets made, time barred Faustian bargains
bleak flea market spirits, blowing kisses at justice
mumble rap studio funerals speaking spoken word eulogies
low income minorities, low key with kilos
destinies frozen behind peepholes, locked doors, no key holes
for those bold broken dam flooded eyes
who do and don't give a damn
I talk for ... those who made momma cry
ten toes on bone floors standing strong to survive
gargling words, grinding teeth, gagging on pride
bagged in shotgun cell blocks, with no view of a sky
for onion skins, good men, Luis Hernandez
and the rest that have died
transpiring, inspiring, and conspiring minds
prison blues, every hue, all colors doing time
caucasians, Latinos, Black faces minus the racist paint
corner stone cup sacrifices worshipping saints
gifted, splifted, lifted, the fallen arguing with faith
tied tight boot laces, bumping hard in the paint
proof seekers, truth speakers
cutting spades with God's grace
foreign races, human faces called aliens
even though were all burped from the earth
born on this planet
fighting for freedom even though it's not granted
those going mad unable to grasp their own madness
the stats, sadness, kept in check by unchecked facts
for every one man going home
another 1,000 getting sentenced
for kids doing bids missing their parents