AWAKE

Now awake
to realize that
you've always
been asleep.

Bought all
that they sold
even at the
price of your
soul.

The truth is
a riddle wrapped
in a puzzle that
you can't solve.

Trapped in a box
that you would'nt
open if you could.

So you run away,
that's what you do
best.

But can't get away
from yourself now
that you're awake.

A Different Time

A different
time and place,
there was
a time I knew
your face,

there was
a time I
knew your place.

You never
saw the
true beauty
you had within.

So now you've
lightened your
skin to be more
like him.
But still
just a nigger
until the end.

I.E.D.

You said
he had bombs,
so you
dropped bombs
to blow
off legs and arms.

Blood is just as
red as it was before,
but their countries

been blown apart
and so have we,
guess those markets
aren't so free.

War is the only
answer for some,
peace by barrel
of a gun.

War is
the only
answer
for some,
peace by barrel
of the gun.

FALSE FRONT

There is a
distance between
the brain
and mind.

Psyche isn't
what you are
but who you
think you are.

Ego controls
more than
you know
it does.

Logic is
the first
casualty
of pride.

Love is just
a tool
to use
as you need.

Pain is relative
especially when
you depend
on it.

Now is
all that matters
especially today,

but it's only a
product of who
you think
you are.

There's a distance
between the brain
and the mind.

Blogging the Convention from my Couch

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would live to see the day when a black man would become the official presidential nominee of one of the two major political parties. And yet that's what happened today when during the "roll call" of states at the convention, the final delegate votes were cast by Hillary Clinton of all people.Barrack Obama is the nominee for the Democratic Party! I mean everyone already knows this, but it just feels so strange saying it. In the words of the late great black historian John Henrik Clarke, it's been "a long and mighty walk" for black people in this country. To think that we are only two hundred and forty three years removed from slavery. And only forty two years from Jim Crow? Wow what a day.
Those sentiments out of the way, back to my coverage of the convention. Verizon Fios sucks and does not carry my go to cable newser M.S.N.B.C, so I am forced to be resourceful. I can't stand CNN and obviously Fox News isn't a choice. So I decide to check out the network coverage. It's about what I expected, milk toast and without nuance or perspective. So I go with the best of the worst which is NBC. There at least you get some of the MSNBC talent like Olberman, Mathews and my personal favorite Chuck Todd. You can't call yourself a political junkie if you haven't checked out Chuck Todd yet, he's awesome. Not a flame throwing liberal like I would hope, but come on people we aren't going to get Howard Zinn or Noahm Chomsky or network television. I'll have more to write after Billy Boy's fifteen minutes tonight.
PS: Fios still sucks and Hillary